Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e23a9dd6305548cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-10 23:26:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9ff48563c6606771959c2430915a95f5 SHA-1: 569f70e31706ffd6f5c39b880da3f75d321817d1 SHA-256: e23a9dd6305548cddc2cfd33c7adf88f655263e8d114f4c2cdd795b92879a266
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a social engineering lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://semangkabiji.com/contents/files/53563034473.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/nobubuwekokan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theexplorerthai.com/userfiles/files/96531229968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spvi.cn/filespath/files/20210902065921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauti-full.ru/uploads/files/vomonurajiwanibanep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://femagnet.com/upload/edu/article/file/35419636055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/file/fapeberufotawepiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ayurmitra.com/files/file/jowijoworepidebobopogalut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/vesusigatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iowatriallawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bubafefasib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3e469647f---nufurixexegifozosid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/pirubogenewij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c8219a567---deloraropaxeninijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bozoklar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82278685469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jimsclub.net/new/board/img_tinfo/file/20210908184543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitpuertorico.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12800582267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartelabasligi.com/images_upload/files/51266023922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f2h63c2.ip4secure.net/upload/files/jiwitokefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aragonemprendedor.com/userfiles/files/komisezasibidomidemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/linurowejolutovijiginofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jemupoledabax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudeshnamaulik.com/fckimages/file/94311534461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.physedu.in/newsite/userfiles/files/56662937552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logicamail.it/draft/media/ludirelepixetelezinewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=download+thesaurus+dictionary+for+androidPDF 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_off0000e1c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1C7 10872 bytes
SHA-256: aeb5eee5a26e6695608d2b731c6237969f0f5171090ca871d4fe8f9e90321c7b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fae8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAE8 19852 bytes
SHA-256: bd60fd46fe3b9378af18b9db936ada1c3bab3ba5f4a18d4236910f9a6933b7b4
font_02_sfnt_off00012e9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1