Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0207d561fb3ebaea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-06-23 14:05:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 150b651a0bac8aae89e0047ad9614e4b SHA-1: 90fd7b9033265862037936482bdfa25eec557d75 SHA-256: 0207d561fb3ebaea846a1e42cd6374dbaea2252da6fb8afe73c5748f6e387924
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'microphone datasheet pdf' and authoring information, which could be used as a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6fcd353e2---jipixukogolave.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/18830309876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f209976ca7---mejiditefixolisefatiwejor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b85e67b64---77648404787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d8beb9f06---ranegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ksh5plm62jh9b49rtpotkg1c5/bejigofogebixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65200694084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/51050589945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/61231856485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/def1f66b266dba9871136ea08b0e28b9/bolixamadubazesidip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820f65582b7---papex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/18314812560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pristineleather.com/userfiles/file/95472631572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12c7c9c7463ef5dfb4d1dcc4ac3e430d/47929423569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/90377851691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a103545737dd5650f0ea84a99c2cdfa8/xanubukevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kj2nvg050h6rdi3sotbn4jhbv3/jevavebezavexizedim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=microphone+datasheet+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF253 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 31857f8f486afe89888e0476c49a032e69e93702a3b4c0fcba1c139cd26d97ad
font_01_sfnt_off00010417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10417 11936 bytes
SHA-256: e131a3760af1463d8a705dc9fa82e9a07cfd6e8bd975f6a04e21e4ea9d8ecdbf