Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 201d46e92f3dd07c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 16:52:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 55bd3ee57ae76e8d38464d9ad92c152c SHA-1: db3a53e9b5a49bab0c0311403fa24041a6103e64 SHA-256: 201d46e92f3dd07cdf4c5c39bbb6897624f34152553aea10fd3216b7dff777e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's structure as a link farm suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://insolite.lu/img/userfiles/files/kajupidopewafijenuwoso.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/xutomagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/12614299926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f90fcd020---galegamejelivuzos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093be6414c77---47336805913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dabc3e8758468538c5b3fe23eb9d823/2456722779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agarimo.com/archivos/archivos/tugubitevepun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ahcjevtqq.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70727516287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/1723412592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/97711422209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089dcb92ddcc---dukogazadigibibidifowutij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45748bfcc548bac21150f76abe0204c0/52310090905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f89a2f20a66a3cf1dc26f56b27adb77a/zefutabuvafoluwemamadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archissimo.eu/userfiles/files/70963921070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d07b94248b---niwojetokovaderiwadumuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/nosugiwojakumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/weminaginipigamojuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/jizaxojudadusotis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3200553016---zalekigotugevivejazadakag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/mexukagotirimedafivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestuby.com/userfiles/file/sukojijulazomerox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://border-inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/rujozorozifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nomortiga.com/contents//files/pilujopugidegimukefawosuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/keono2khn39io7ithm4pej577v/28415020359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=get+him+to+the+greek+bloopersPDF 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_off0000fe2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001163c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1163C 20524 bytes
SHA-256: b4d91c3a71fd9ff6e9eed912d9f573a384233c62f9d13471db3fb3bfffc94ee1
font_02_sfnt_off000149bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149BB 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 0f242b079c138f2b81ba60f68933f7e02f0faa848fcc4fa53f300a48053db0e1