Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 200cf5cac4d001ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-14 04:58:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: afce2d69c47b3105f41dcc93bddac79d SHA-1: fb79f66996898750340bb27ec0ee40fe8d0bf0c1 SHA-256: 200cf5cac4d001edb23aeed323d00b3092ab4099fab7494ea170381b2cc4381a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=real+8+ball+pool+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ecdc66e32c85df9c58202d021272d54/rozilejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horgaszvelem.elelmiszer-hazhozszallitas.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17947800809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butagallery.com/userfiles/files/dujamuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinedafoundation.org/imageuploads/file/degexifovabelotejato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventima.ru/userfiles/file/dazopakesoxavomedoruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/baxukurolav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almudenafernandez.co/ckfinder/userfiles/Files/50402165918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympicthesportshop.in/uploads/62987854185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christ-china.com/filespath/files/20210909021256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukat.dnsaktif.net/upload/files/jabopalova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/6185972216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/xekakotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepodoshlo.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20331397278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronocertif.com/userfiles/file/52211980819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuxuxunali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsystem.sk/userfiles/files/gulelunizasexulebutan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e193a0bf3---takudagejalawotux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahknchem.com/upload/files/57021965941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levne-pohary.cz/UserFiles/File/97472150481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyalangkorapartment.com/userfiles/file/49271487277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeyounow.net/userfiles/file/zulumibibimodamiraduvir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qwerty.pl/_data/file/52129642415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bea2b9447f---weboj.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_off0000d89d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD89D 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 7521dc363c4a3c3fa6ca79376b2710bab4e2180584741c0c668891f15c8085ba
font_01_sfnt_off00010676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10676 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E8D 10168 bytes
SHA-256: cd0630c2433473a51c276609b91739f2c46f324de2b39a4e891846c3f0f07178