Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c23122a4f3e20590…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-06-11 19:55:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: e3bc1195d87e0d073613517d1107552a SHA-1: 1109b1331308b97abc2b6bd5098d87f46981228b SHA-256: c23122a4f3e20590292dfd2ed4ba4f3b9201cff314bebc6eb24f7b44f2d1268c
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'Minecraft download', indicating a lure to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+1.16+download+free+pe PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f6a813d79009ab53d2ba74447745b25/81310167695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/55826081035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/newipotefunapukinawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad65927320ee47b8d4746d55a1672e9a/wunikojobesagiwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/vizanemir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff4fe1669e---bidunofuxuzopovuzojulegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c2082e616---xojumonidujumakugevox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090cb3a07d6f---parizekalowakinilevewate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbb8a9b2dc48298810de9bbf35238918/82821565297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ac9d6184e---11577194033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28faffb82287f2f3ee9f65b94111eb9e/nipulubadapakaxomofefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/21280181631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746ae7b6a30---56253041342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/89608934741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39f416b91c---11512369301.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ac3d3a5c5---94107209596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f8ae1c854---37675282017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/tawovixapedolupatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b71c178e6536e4c894839f78c7098dd7/17341373559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF256 5304 bytes
SHA-256: bdf234cbf8a3fc46f4c68b2affbd1ab5ffebd2c737c80d0044aa8554b0e22b11
font_01_sfnt_off00010496.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10496 1860 bytes
SHA-256: a2a66ac8ce7e6530e9170f02c1285ccb38c63825ce8182fd6b68de0445f379c8
font_02_sfnt_off00010da9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA9 21792 bytes
SHA-256: 2c8c9e45eae40603250cac251b025d45e4b319357d4f08dfdb70d2923ee1a1f7