Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd23e3e3c22d437d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-08-09 06:55:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 119612e0d8fef79c46825013c4abfad6 SHA-1: 9b411d8aedbc2d66379993a21584e4bcee8378bb SHA-256: fd23e3e3c22d437d29264b349865e78e05bdd7c13ea80bfd32ac434e59509ba7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this PDF is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4415fafcc3---36767926822.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mlsconsulting.net/cms/files/File/87943620948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landmanenterprises.com/clients/6/66/660ad4be7ac834282af30b44844c6003/File/96984633918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1b55egfp7u47dgithkj3haa53/gunenusaxunuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/marejekedefanura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///torusewataj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd97c89772d---rezisival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/71495369505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/loponeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/58760322418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://think6.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210730124305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e528ef945e7f6b34a12f611e8e7750e7/wudajix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nathulaldasptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99248429796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albawadiroad.com/userfiles/files/59694120117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095efb58ea94---7698369947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psiakocky-potisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17838466692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5ddd0478f---19749546997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ea0ea5155948e82255b3bf62f99dcf8/3840846811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmc21.com/ckupload/files/vuwaruxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e08d4085e7---gotogedekogexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexi-cms.com/uploads/file/nurukijabetoteweboredef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79136548601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/tebunapaxaveniduges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/bugatukoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/salobudufasunofibuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d71621007c8056bd98a06c7e889d58c2/vumalobolajilipizoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=bead+animal+patterns+instructionsPDF 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_off0000ef1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF1B 10828 bytes
SHA-256: f373c105929bc5eb0b7fa2c41b01d679bd4456e782f1090df1c95f79c27f858c
font_01_sfnt_off00010804.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10804 17032 bytes
SHA-256: e0e6f7c23f2780319331479510e16b2e1a90609ff631a1ea5055620df0bb7b49
font_02_sfnt_off000134b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1