Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1202db7000bad960…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 10:57:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 23f4b835c9457137820899eb1c530ae7 SHA-1: f5ab32304c49d4b32219521d2ebe4caff19d521c SHA-256: 1202db7000bad960b5132a3cccd3cbbaba8fcebb08bf1f36a6e0269fb67d8690
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/pibudifuzemopuvo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6o5nku1v6lb9hrfgqm99i3vg5/pukuzixomuvusanakutosaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f2cee840cec9138e772e48c47af6b78/7824322967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb8940ec0f---fuliwaxesuluvidojawuveja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/89120594063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d94910484d---66839100303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6df040f0f2ac12dc784ab5886a8e5f11/18446419669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b463fcf673---68931915551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745325bab82---82997947540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853acb44b85---sivujepigebinusinuvux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/99488953914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983170ef306---puxegodija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/jiputilofovewij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/gubarazibaziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/1565394383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/30272477212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7758389fd49823fb4073053ffd01c60/wikafonexafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u25fjd2pbhg751kk11okejt3s0/25873987330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbktelq7ai2jneerqhjf9bhdie/95800995701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb0a71ad231---kutesawugonirumomezofumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99eb25ec13e59609a8eef95eaf5143d7/98142099476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h9dbbhekk8fm62anph1ljs3av0/10132765105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90f23ce048e3d7a53acfd89bb2c54a9c/zezaxurosomeronetoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+date+editor+onlinePDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7ee8105537a27916327bbd2379eb7db/95895821067.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_off0000fda4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000115bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115BB 10180 bytes
SHA-256: 7451cdd1c5d16c23d76595df036fb14e35f48d068c8232c4e70ad286e14c1e14
font_02_sfnt_off00012c92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C92 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 08477fe0b34a5586cab96cb9b6e11a97825928b1e29eaa428fb7e3d2de476e63