Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da23a983e6539223…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 11:24:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fc20d084ce132a1d1f6b59a3f97b8f79 SHA-1: 634908cfb054195bc5830c9a36870e9805e6f7b2 SHA-256: da23a983e6539223483fcf744bac84a566ade5d7e2a6c622aad93d611dd7fbb0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, often disguised as file uploads, and uses 'utm_term' parameters suggesting a phishing or scam campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading malware or engaging in phishing activities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mobile+legends+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d0f014deee---79843616868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/07233219821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/74095344285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/43734006257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5o21qkvkbtdvq41b7vmufj606r/zunizudavufonilonupinitok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e5ee4c3cd6---99784236691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epwuae.com/userfiles/file/37594568181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-klass.ru/i/upload/files/depojev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/86914605567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienminhgroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/46090169457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141b9519ebe0---purifitiduxukizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guineaservicesproviders.com/gsp/files/76867393337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhxndl.com/uploadfiles/files/92544365090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146660684d11---nipuvewepekefawer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanna-drive.nl/files/File/zaxufiledewipifezoger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.nl/userfiles/file/dezeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/gozufujavikipuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f220127115756d2c3b0126b7f73d1575/89094172413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614386563e764---zekubivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/wanewivevinakegatalug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://odlingfamily.com/userfiles/file/29671242195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukuorder.com/uploads/files/gepimegojex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/30948765316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31615498604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polymadeniyaglar.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vinojuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c55ee001f7548f8ba41944ac48e2569f/4553411756.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_off0000c735.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC735 10764 bytes
SHA-256: c7ccf30b72248de170ac82f2519736354d6fc3ec54d685324c57720ea81288e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000df7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f78c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF78C 17832 bytes
SHA-256: 331b071c45e006e0ccacba8eb6ab9b801249d29858691bbd45425524295970e0