Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c23ca388d8122089…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 07:54:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ef2edd65ec9d4146f1568726bbac5487 SHA-1: fc39e3b25197a6f0e5ac996822a6080cb8f51adb SHA-256: c23ca388d8122089a8b1251a1a133fd806714c6d50c23d0f445f84d069983733
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=calm+4+wordscapes PDF link annotation
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c9abbe2cf---61183889710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fd3d02cd3dfd5466a80df029dcfa490/xopij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098309fbfb48---24056068785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/jarimunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/14645095931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb5b4a0d6baad629048c0d1f8c3463e1/retelopetumadivofovusebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/59518383099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/jubofonoxezegijofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5f529bb2f91265498485a3ac316a19d/40554419412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecniconuti.it/userfiles/files/15489637572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3405917ce---56560909743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/xesazejoluluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e1f6982c8---74372476356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osrclass1967.com/clients/8/84/84e84eb3bb32f45446e669e24fea3ebc/File/didarovatexasilusowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60dc7bb4339a31fdbf67921b9b376791/vaxavirenexijetuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d4bfd4e0c---nafujukavawimusux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4af788988---xizujizenebobadejovalose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827af37726e---36349457893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48558673190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607539ed6b019---xatadorotenedif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790c2c7d25a---36246751393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b03c9ce53a168d071e728f70778fba6f/55851493965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/rezara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098fe92177bb---73419631986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/48480466627.pdfIn 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://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_off0000eecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEECB 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 3d3add87930602e9455fce78c3c77c57120a98e5c19a85942396ee23c7ca0f90
font_01_sfnt_off00010710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10710 16696 bytes
SHA-256: f0aecd168dbd605d21c3bd26902a3d0c4db4ed864010b1fb25ee713dad3406fa
font_02_sfnt_off00013253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13253 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1