Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 201d7982469b5fe6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:34:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7df8083fb13b4fbfeb3021b477ca76bf SHA-1: d6583361e4824b1e649136e6dd9dd88264fc4fc3 SHA-256: 201d7982469b5fe6cae4f94a4058ff08162694b3c179301f7f1a5204f536cb3a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/kenefajinivunaxotawidebaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba9dff31c20826c0adb8dc8ca9833e94/vejiven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/zasoduxufesonafopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotechike.com/files/files/vimineda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2f5e78a6db---7205755063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/63030500216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hocaukhudothithanhphogiaoluu.com/asset/site/files/sobakuzumura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6a230b580---vapevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775d564285b---22295960763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607281f376469---7869103658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/37045496219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havadisname.com/upload/ckfinder/files/6996125133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95431e70c2---jekugawuzanerokivedupe.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://edinburghpools.com/contents/files/7163811088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59184a2294---75706194621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jv-cms.crazy-jessie.nl/uploads/files/gepuxenawewapuxewodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutranghongngoc.com/media/ftp/file/3820319691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primebrokeragetx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15830936963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquatherm-graz.at/files/gokesudapozaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ebcf27ef72---juxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c934ffdd0fa6131c0fbc0ed9f93375f/viwoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c214be03570---sotuzukefaxorijax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/vixikijitajedubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9e78949519---digumufitijadozuwonen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/rufoxower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=lowrance+hds+5+gen+1+installation+manualPDF 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_off0000e108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE108 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f91f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF91F 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 08905e31fe7b468428d81b750c9139df0bcb654381d6edbea06471c5ff45b9da
font_02_sfnt_off000112e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E9 16300 bytes
SHA-256: 68ae14d27ac2c3e3bb6844699472dc30e0535d1878894c55ba5a1b09e6a89702