Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 201b6bb7f7579a70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 17:24:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d3165ab1b56c6d130bd183e52d4d155e SHA-1: 70f8eeb2c987847d355d04e2f6a1e90d229dbc1b SHA-256: 201b6bb7f7579a700bd2be83352ed15bdd2fbdc7721c630e3633501071c547f0
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document's structure suggests it is a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. The presence of the 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely provides a password to decrypt a subsequent malicious archive, a technique used to evade security scanning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://nenorm.com/files/files/25166109989.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/75454435123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinsacars.com/files/others/josumadexubirovifoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocgrafikavukatwebsitesi.demowebsiteleri.com/upload/files/21479396583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/7773097185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodispirito.it/userfiles/file/gebaruwamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tydafa.com/dafa/uploadfiles/20210908184833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/948ffc86f704a215abab06def1d926b2/44979464793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139eef4ba28b---7271964895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autonoleggioassereto.com/file/88004400731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/24704229181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile///tagakugiwipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adverto.ee/userfiles/file/pamezuzoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veaodaibrahma.com/uploads/image/files/85869716081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vikowemefulavufimigelitik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gidromall.ru/img/uploads/file/39865904093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36415722999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muabannhagiare.net/images/uploads/files/lixifurowoteba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-camper.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tafobarepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9c28a683c---gojijewunigoviwejaligoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sampoernastrategic.com/uploads/image/files/vaxugobukagorasisaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9j32fnuhnnuph1uha8n44jc0e1/lijegebilenafexumotuluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43aa90cde55272eaadd66ec8d6c479b7/87271821786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=cricket+07+free+download+for+androidPDF 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_off0000defd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEFD 18356 bytes
SHA-256: 7db286aaecfd766eb7774b67c9ef4a3465d3852078fc447de1b14680acf80cbb
font_01_sfnt_off00010ec2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126D9 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 6c37e18159de8373f18eb14876d91d0acf02780dddb524f716631a6dadb21177