Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0e23221d1990a22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 10:14:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 743fdcec4c3e60bedb9da3907a4164fa SHA-1: bbcdb715c488d36821d02b76568fd460e323b635 SHA-256: b0e23221d1990a2274c585d24ab9ac4cd67c42a36619d10f4cb810f31e671825
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this, suggesting the document is designed to trick the user into downloading a secondary payload. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly confirms the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://vjlabor.pitscovn.com/uploads/Upload/files/ledurotomaboxugatag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jingchengs.com/jingchengs/ckfinder/files/20210905142341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/kegigavufawopin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediedil.eu/userfiles/files/16320310107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613266001e228---15341370536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahdrilling.com/userfiles/files/6005755730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czpohledavky.cz/userfiles/files/liketemewanopifixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://178.62.148.222:300/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16109310794.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613808d9859dc---suvirawujifubekokuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/20292761222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me/files/famovuwaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8a9585bc4bafb88729298870ea0de70/38772334418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atrax.hr/files/zuxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopi.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xekodok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://craft-personal.de/userfiles/file/pudizenijiwefimuvezinex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitacasa.it/images/file/tepafixuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emons-verlag.net/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/zuzudezofixate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recrute.fr/files/files/daxuzarizira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbidc.kr/upload/editor/file/1631360657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/67407262846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio86.net/userfiles/fichiers/40870085837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfectprojects.ro/userfiles/file/kogufubiwutafutoremik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles/file/62688937278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31554768428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--nellieskche-0hb.de/userfiles/file/pezuzebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=tune+into+grammar+class+5+answer+keyPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ddf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDF9 11064 bytes
SHA-256: cd35d081e7ca6bdee4eaaa0fc363c1bc02e97968db8b752b8269e5dbfe8394a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E4 18068 bytes
SHA-256: b9540f10ec9aa22c046af0df6b09bcd952dfea85f3296769f68a6c243c30e98d
font_02_sfnt_off00012712.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12712 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1