Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d723860b600bcf73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:33:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 006ab0e1caa46dbd4ef2e3c02c4ea002 SHA-1: 245fe4851abe30f94492eac6a9f4cf024b79b825 SHA-256: d723860b600bcf73e3694ceb8f2c63d093bc06e29c2e15c551a0832fc364543b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and UTM parameters indicating a phishing or distribution attempt. ClamAV also detected it as a phishing trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an effort to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://piauiaqui.com/ckfinder/files/lezisev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://njxinbell.com/upload/files/94429893347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photopuzzle.net/userData/board/file/gabegixomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/34867825222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhphucvietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zokememadaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413cb0d58b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jingchengs.com/jingchengs/ckfinder/files/20210904180347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4eabfd75b80da87ed98039bc349d3623/fixigaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bongbansaigon.com/uploads/files/mixafusubiwero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natanashoes.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/kijofokenabogesililodaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site/site/data/files/84394092822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150003.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210907014247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getsolarnj.com/userfiles/file/935792198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strongpointmarketing.net/userfiles/file/83796314601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f663412c3e2b5f8f7df9a6822fecc68/65388681856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/3139063518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52fantasies.com/home/holly/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tomekupilizoralu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6c97405b6---sejuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqua4you.hu/userfiles/file/momosunowimijititir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/92437760791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debrecen.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/3183188752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ciesol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lalunudek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/fonomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f09aa1d900---64756269348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139be30827f2---wujebanodawifazemuxewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=is+facetime+video+securePDF 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_off0000cb21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB21 10604 bytes
SHA-256: d8c4e98f3b19c379709748778fa3015af19c45b8ea52fcdb8ededee2ec6c2315
font_01_sfnt_off0000e374.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE374 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB86 18272 bytes
SHA-256: c7950294e5c36b18cd1b56bc699775fb4ce9b7625cc441c9f3995819aa615fc1