Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca23e78fda49ab00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-08-06 00:33:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: bcb0731f26f9f118ed870532af9a9d08 SHA-1: 86c46fe8fbe9c554b0e45d30ab7e4ed7126dd704 SHA-256: ca23e78fda49ab008f4a5ec15a7e8e1d5dd6193908ea29e91d4be441e8615a3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a significant number of links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

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 http://raegcafe.com/uploads/files/lodujadexewedixogegi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fhbrtv452g2904ssk4np95ca3/28731928657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blbr365.com/userfiles/file/1621832017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starsunited.at/upload/files/zolowavetovajesurikaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ab926b32c---muzemovovizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/69001593392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6cggf9jb28l12l10ki31p8qt0/82266149516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/782f54bfa2fda0789965b2cdbbce958c/nijulinuzevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/zigureweniwoximabaweleto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webfox.net.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe31282776fc9a7eab880d1d9285d1ca/luwatatibipulozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6150b2f7713fdd1fb985b80bd31f271/69039273720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/292155415092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/bupisovibadogipolakaked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/jodexixexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941504bfb63---69259159647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160abd4bda01d2---rukovunexeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granitemountainranch.net/userimages/77468305834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64c1d2980c---pifiwekutaxuximotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/562426641ca6f7f7f39f45c21b8eaa2b/88604671201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/8576782552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080470f7f4e5---5078384754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d3b00033bab31ff8536b12c2c6fefb4/nekapalabopegevatepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c54a7baa58---rolin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d0sdk0ikd3l2buia3dj7jrcdu/xewubiborepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=joining+sentences+with+gerund+exercises+with+answersPDF 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_off0000ea22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10239 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 73b74cf0c48d4a33cf1909ab0784274a07acfe01d811ebe4e50aa4948f53bbc1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B48 16456 bytes
SHA-256: d45899c047f3db795a776c7a309d638d24029fdad7c3dd4618658326390878c0