PDF malware analysis — malicious · f23fa8db1533a77b

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:33:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11

MD5: 1be0598c42c5d2ee5fb419235b66286a SHA-1: 560477e13c7d5f0909960033f6463b8f5c668ecf SHA-256: f23fa8db1533a77b514551b068d49fbb34a7983f59a90936557644c4ec970155

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to these external resources, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1682816a9ab71c39f4b8ca9209b968cd/badezatijaxe.pdf In PDF document text
- http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f118cec32---45386462405.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://luxe-pools.fr/i/File/wuvimizile.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/63571713506.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://americanewbie.com/userfiles/file/xiwegi.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715d2ee093d---84984620195.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc109512fc7---25804231551.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://bibonatura.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pezuwubiliw.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077901db1da9---xeweguvugekanekazepenufen.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210731143453_629813913.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ponapazulinodipateno.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9284dc94733e5aa9d536d868a5cacf7c/6595145608.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b86fe7be5eeeee4b71d50bd71cb1ca40/mimolinusisorivogejinifi.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/rovukoregojukamato.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96c7381f8e---58890157585.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fee22b1a10343ce6182bf96070723853/4884138231.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://vlajkylevne.cz/UserFiles/File/doxagofus.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://penzionklara.cz/userfiles/file/42265120695.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2h9dghgfper1s2gfsj1piv5v8/44851252070.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a8709dd73---vanikoviwaxoxovedanekilup.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add45133e31---95661333438.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7rf0mrc9ctr7fcsv9461lrg18c/fefefewonevi.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://sterkrade.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/modeb.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://mobitransjogja.com/files/gawajiwogivupibemumawanew.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/vulaponab.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sasagetukazo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=control+systems+engineering+textbook+pdfPDF 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000e142.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE142	16160 bytes
SHA-256: `8297e04528ad853bb69de5b9af6988f5810f900d369e9b0ff9412d5b7df86ee8`
`font_01_sfnt_off00010b00.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B00	11160 bytes
SHA-256: `76799e7b26ac9be81ef7a7f82d6ff5760bb538397eb56d85c7d0322f18af079d`
`font_02_sfnt_off000124b8.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124B8	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`

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