Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 200d8ee477e5d6b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-07 11:13:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: adfa882988febcfb41e55ecfa0106a62 SHA-1: 2a70e394f80a5cdc2bdddb67f58d7c52778246ea SHA-256: 200d8ee477e5d6b06a288adcf572396a6b67446812f1ece038cea9fbf0cde827
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to further the attack chain, possibly by downloading additional payloads or redirecting the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b546a001596---somupigofukogatu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wonkingchina.com/d/files/38271334161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/50202861700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a5d760a919441bcbad7a33bd8cc13a7/46053970510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e8dbbd2ac---42752205305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a72e151dc13be20393ca1569e08bfbcb/67657111800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simmsfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/98/98d47f1658d09d39d77ba56043454c9c/File/5363885892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artside.org/data/temp/file/2766439062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb36c7c622---dovagakonewonenibaxaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/45947847103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5414c9114cf37f675464da9eef5b9779/34237156261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5db340458b---pojukojumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/zukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhathuydesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dp1uthojg0iv5acdjbomnual2s/jebuvukeduxuvurev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://obermeyer-modemarkt.de/upload/file/siveriwetedufidudupos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damafusiwusowuzodupepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/xojefevebedaxesofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe57ab6827---38982029807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kle95at3cmoin8bmlts9ktgl95/1275522352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b72edcfa23a51ec88e1ba1ecfe12016e/96102970636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609749874bd7d---51940862560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a003c2107---voxemeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dspec-car.com/js/upload/files/fanalujeredero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarentcar.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210630_8BBE6810209128C0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/viripodonerujel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607048234c5c8---zosezevavulewobefemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=history+of+romanticismPDF 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_off0000efc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC8 17076 bytes
SHA-256: f47a878e98c80dac07ecd88a54b84ede457f6e6b48d5bc2dfbb8295e60908604
font_01_sfnt_off00011c1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13431 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 13a22d3c238cfb9d6d1ac3931aabce8620df01a8946c0989fa1181e6b88df1a6