Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 202190447f4e1434…

MALICIOUS

PDF

161.3 KB Created: 2021-08-19 13:55:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: ba073cfee03eb5ad8a938833bcc089da SHA-1: 9c2911980ff519566117fdd87050396e82cf858b SHA-256: 202190447f4e14347888455c406da46478abee7ccb8e69f52dcd322298375f92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8354

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c4ba355b8---sajukudivegosonawiti.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2vai188k7uouj1pjup16ndvhr/jaloxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truthtube.com/UserFiles/file/mefoferola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seghers.kr/data/editor/file/17438800076119069d234d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091cc3d113fb---35287103312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/18084253556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/156dorqcsa31t6vkqr1qlambg2/51166252499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/taminigotifab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/224a89dfd6053b8cbaf9159772c485c5/59424191573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba92febb39---zaruki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocmyphamcongty.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/werofalupekuvevojunipug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdbde0760d---nijopoxone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-tableware.com/uploads//files/202108031117355297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutot99.com/webroot/img/files/xamorirupupezugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likebarcode.com/image/files/20210816_134615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legend-chang.com/UserFiles/files/zipomagogufajakel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesirvinewedding.com/clients/f/f9/f947a18657f5d77a8fcd192ffd4ccf25/File/rojabozezapunej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/digoxovorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/69230136773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-traueranzeigen.de/cms/files/18526542373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6hcccds519qmp38vgja2ic90k5/nidazozovubafajuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/do72s9k2nj28em1j4kt1q87f8d/43221820914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/poak3tb0tfk0ek7trbbps43iuq/padopimuxuvaniboraresaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hmgfinance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kafokupadilufewolazumane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/87715134608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manualismedicina.hu/fileok/file/34817329496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/52387032512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=bob+the+robber+4+unblocked+games+77PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001eef0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EEF0 17860 bytes
SHA-256: d84bba82e60bb59b45c1d6829becfb982c5311e69f101fcf7731c5841bcb91b7
font_01_sfnt_off00021de2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21DE2 21044 bytes
SHA-256: 3412beddb2858de19b0dad9ca3500c243d44ae69dfb7d49b1bc0a99e0144608b
font_02_sfnt_off000242d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x242D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00025aed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25AED 11236 bytes
SHA-256: ba12aa06a333c52911faa1fa58a5ac49bf0f352b22e7b177ff436676d4a9ddce