Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 200f7b50ac73eb27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-08-19 21:31:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 532d13fd194a32f6f2626c0efb762bc6 SHA-1: 658f64d6b1ef82cba2f94fa247269d4930219084 SHA-256: 200f7b50ac73eb27c696e6efc52d7cd20393ea4f0d6dc29dd76a0fc0c6288731
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious sites suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce24f3475fd---bawadejuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38be9a2c2c---serivonekebajumefunasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ngd49gg21jcpo37j06c81j6km/28871446311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a2e0c0ec0---46614197295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/88180922186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210716164607037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115e89e81690---56086197141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiyaslo.com/uploads/files/faliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/49642404297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-traueranzeigen.de/cms/files/7000274233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/81029408048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f0a99a115---82231741901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d58b6411d62fab8a8641264cc3f80e16/23510633616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/96640497922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9cd3e2086a---jejipipozexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2a1494d2f83b6a156eee842adc1cea8/wusus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5f10a24cd---dofuvobixafazevapamen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f313760798---mowoforinigusoref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/xuzepeduwekureva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dilipprabhavalkar.com/images/file/1497698686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2b-intelligence.it/uploads/file/vivoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.net/filespath/files/20210815050228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://my-natural-style.net/upload/files/nasubododo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ooexperience.be/assets/Image//files/xarajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/8363152641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=can+red+rump+parrots+talkPDF 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_off0000fa3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3E 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 4bb81b161f356705ed5b6c5c8d7a5770895a463a5dddf239c605dcb392d579fa
font_01_sfnt_off000112c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ad4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD4 16716 bytes
SHA-256: 01a3bc7e229991480672111d43fefcc921b8340139910bd2ab4dc8faadbe2b25