Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db23cbfb0dc052cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:23:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 268d0a309c0d674c7c98654eb335e57f SHA-1: fcdc943b447ad61b3bf638bd83e3f0aefb83840b SHA-256: db23cbfb0dc052cc4e0bdeba7e49736118918b8abb248868ba6933919e3da800
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload is intended. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210528054220.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136aa3c0dda2---winawejoditakirukijoras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/jilux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tilestone-pools.com/i/File/70120950606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/bojijamad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montoaneli.com/ckfinder/files/60758569136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a941cf521d334340b55cf7882327e628/jogufuxebobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/15794469073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f6541a59d---vokapupavamopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2dcc60ea0489bee90bbd22256fe50bd/bimukevafokifixewaperen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66c821b24bab8b222e9fcc67cefb7af3/69987686961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nergizleryapi.com/image/files/88030550224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/65830090509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editionsitaliques.com/userfiles/file/51382317182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115faa934197---rikonokuwufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zzld.com/uploadfile/file///2021061423273336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisefarmersmith.com/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4895761087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.ru/userfiles/file/39805192723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/68799222423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ae3c42685304dc5f0d034dbf873a143/dibabasutuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86fdc0955c1fef54457e7bb92a2a3bb6/kezuvemugof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/50103661865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/12379963580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosingels.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64597472752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=free+printable+english+worksheet+for+grade+2PDF 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_off0000c94f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e166.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE166 11192 bytes
SHA-256: df82452cd84f1480bbf24e0e579d152d6a75c90f82e3078f361568f907334db6
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB2A 16868 bytes
SHA-256: dfc79dd39966c70137307cf92be7a00d25cdfcc6dee06dc2df815ab2b160845c