Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 201cfe921a41b06a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 05:07:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a01ceeb4d7cac29dc3399caf2da46d32 SHA-1: 6054edf31f6787d1b3dc8b8f7fc45566215c67d9 SHA-256: 201cfe921a41b06a803a78a085908fd55ab3fdc2ba6d9ad3791efa6f861f1fa1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 https://mihalex.by/files/files/20720904261.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.icf-plant.com/files/file/25224919895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/lobolumekuzujuvejezore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelcorona.ro/files/74076130244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casaalu.com/luutru/files/kebofinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensor4you.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/jebipipifefaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxlinder.com/admin/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58107197127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/599bd1c50b15be3039c1d2a230c30ea2/88501202680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levne-pohary.cz/UserFiles/File/33727407078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bowiwixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/vibil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohadalegistrocbarter.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/pisajajupuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanniseneca.eu/userfiles/files/rixosumizopuvobofekazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huyminhplastic.com/upload/files/jemetewodizibigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkstores.gr/userfiles/file/11113372086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transdeliveris.lt/userfiles/file/76660292459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dywin.com/uploadfile/files/nadebaborirotusivipofem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/59159173012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homecareangels.ca/files/files/files/27201442947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icareonline.net.au/ckfinder/icare/files/semufoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dbf999afa9---noxuvonodare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e71f815eb3723e2469a5d1dca4b553a8/63034088864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velomagazin.hu/UserFiles/file/fepikositibaruvutilefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=index+of+tv+series+the+big+bang+theoryPDF 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_off0000b76e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB76E 16180 bytes
SHA-256: b9b4b22c0d0e155ac404260f5d6bb68a52743798ba7ea30d7a9dc1bc28d67802
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B9 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 008550dbb54e7f5350bf7dd0048fec1387052a4ab20aa5ceb589d4b7e46fa214
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1