Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06203853e8368706…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:23:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e8171cc27b7ff5b728db4f5b335970af SHA-1: a468edbd72a3d91c5acdda9756f69e4fe49e3df3 SHA-256: 06203853e83687064391e2d92b8c5e470aea693c3ad7569d41a183e202c398ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users into visiting potentially harmful websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+recover+deleted+files+from+my+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://vet-arrighicolangelicristilli.eu/userfiles/files/sogogabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/90103834469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemonova.com/FCKeditor/file/17310041257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134343ff2a34---26341081284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021090413154879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balarampurblock.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kekoxelase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f283c8932f---95083495969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/futaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poptheme.cn/uploadfile/files/20210914_063636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/49861751628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formel1vermietung.de/userfiles/file/89801030124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/remalunuwifiwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imihwa.com/uploads/image/20210916/files/20210916130040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowagon.it/userfiles/files/rezeloroxutolirofowizet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmhomeschool4art.com/mycms/uploadedimages/editorUploadedImages/file/75999524103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viceda.com/userfiles/file/32516411320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleschimmo.lu/userfiles/files/rotamiteduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montagnobozzone.it/userfiles/files/28842772915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/47125547287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/safuniteluvarunibukek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/vebakasebolaxexitorax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhtoangalaxyhotel.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/pideregugodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e751e85792---96893251758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16134e76baa2a4---27185668730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newsru.md/upload/userfiles/files/69561041501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomodorolennep.de/gfx/userfiles/files/pinonupibapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAB9 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 1f26c2b72bedbae874d4d04fb0667886323da64d65a1cd3d5abc01bc279da6cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000d471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD471 15116 bytes
SHA-256: 29046f14e03d4f42a2383d64ce3ba8ece81d24984a4eb120938e77a6d9600186
font_02_sfnt_off0000faf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1