Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c23e29596b9f5f61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-08-22 00:02:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9c39991e654ca6662eb8eff22d6dfcb9 SHA-1: d380522cb60df36421a5a23613bd7a2916988da4 SHA-256: c23e29596b9f5f615369fc80ea4f95773808ffb9ee391759b87f5f979bc5f752
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress uploads and disposable domains, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/96693737783.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b40c81b01423210316f12de9eacdfbb6/66811254017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aefb945776---bilifer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1424d17ea---dajogefasolem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kutuwobur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774e78ec086---73787253549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldazegliotorino.com/userfiles/files/86045727909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af28bd1f3b---90261582101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yakutiaprime.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/doligeparoxokupasok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/45751257923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/97702446212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078aefa5673a---tofigazefikebexurojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210530142211101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cbbgjpteb4ojfaupn1ar7svvq/matuzitelimilexivedebutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://free-spirit-city.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/vafuxomivalirog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fdd742e1c834de7976b8e821eebefbb/34607492234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur6doump4qf3mvnintq2um4jq6/golefuvaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mf6f19qhima284sb6kji0nmt42/refavez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/peten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607755fb4bccd---11948225618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f71817371b028c33360b3c5bad7eb9e0/71713682235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apc-algercentre.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3125546500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/83045819973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5f198297c---bapegolefawaxebutixaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818ed73fdf5---72619717517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=probabilidad+y+estad%C3%ADstica+eduardo+guti%C3%A9rrez+gonz%C3%A1lezPDF 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_off0000c274.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC274 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 0cbe8cbab8d4ae66c089b46883897eec5d93f173faf5116ff7c8e7faadb4a4aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC61 16700 bytes
SHA-256: ea5566b41aebdea62d582668cac88cdf7adb534d1a403a9ef651060d21a32313
font_02_sfnt_off000106dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1