Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c23d5c9d3ffe91fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:57:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: ebc50a958f3955e67876d5d56f01d272 SHA-1: 6cb37206a85bb9383d79620d5e2fde3eaad9fe2e SHA-256: c23d5c9d3ffe91fb90044dcb9259133644bfb2f5d565c7d7ce6f1f89a6bd2f47
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exhibits multiple indicators of malicious activity, including being flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and link farms, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=converter+pdf+em+arquivo+de+word PDF link annotation
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f3ea9258d2bdca09d97af5bff92c6e/demufijasikiworapad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/xinidimotomigenijemad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/sunaritilizufalotosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/88061631243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/9751650057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokofontaene.de/idata/24838439427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/984dec75e8fedb7ad233fa149b466616/nuneziguruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tropo-design.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xolodenufonuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80b97439e1---87736313614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74p6b93gkbthi1m2jmfhlc8vs3/peradobawobagoxetotafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/80625110879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a2481aa0578df841db46479354dfedb/55503077683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/rezelazegibivimolabubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/lejosajafejeluletesepomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/13940302569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/wopivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fmu52re71pqi99aq1f7ocrkdp0/tevibopodabifalezetipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/mavadavixuvelapetoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/sedivilenutafafatepomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/942e8fd95851dcc5985da659328dba2a/foviwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/4016600418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73077580599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebodyclubonline.com/userfiles/file/mubipud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkewebseo.com/webroot/img/files/fivulemejukedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/45259613011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psiakocky-potisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63641498300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seo-methodes.com/userfiles/file/28317738638.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_off0000d635.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD635 18136 bytes
SHA-256: ca88c44ec53e37b415feb5fddffc607c3a9410435f27c0e387616322f765ed0a
font_01_sfnt_off00010475.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10475 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C8C 10876 bytes
SHA-256: ac32b36f0dddb51558e9cac18689ea07cc2bffab1f4fcb704d830ae7b6b918a5