Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 202554bb7e994e54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-08-09 03:09:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c17fec169ddc8a6254ffc7cba084556b SHA-1: 91a0cfa427281465b2abde6b44a09bdba644f9d3 SHA-256: 202554bb7e994e54ef111bf3d32753582f8e96b51660ac5fbbd83247afbf962d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm directing users to numerous external URLs, with several hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings point to a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9897

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://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/78422036716.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://teamcode.net/upload/files/15914767476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-6/20210606092833241108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960ihs.com/clients/e/e0/e0b58928a48036c9af8d6cfc9cffdd99/File/74887286983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4f8bf791a856ee64c30d6e7b56f5542/29961648659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/dowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/kinubujavigefijujipam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viguxiwinijowodegajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1clc7drvdumd9mm74psedcc36/sujedunibitoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/202158029478443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaytinhcu.vn/upload/files/vafomunupumagiragaxiwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srub-servis.ru/userfiles/file/fiwewepoputixomilosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73epvs81fusmc2g2dq03m9iskf/lujexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160931c7b7f614---levinudolegufijelufid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9521c6f07---38345334678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/jufonalubiwowigegekuwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd62a6b9d2---penewadamawamiperaxida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/garelixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u8n95cu557m4cmucmgvk9l69o4/nisevosuzopewetuzana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cf5e665f0---99286383139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607812b51973b---ganopadotum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/jiwaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a2cfde633dab515c404fcdb53cf8e75/90922363731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2bbac783ad---15940053251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vnvfuh7cn5q4138m9s9h057sjo/rezari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallncart.com/userfiles/files/simapipawewugomibev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=que+es+un+padre+ausentePDF 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_off000109ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109FF 10288 bytes
SHA-256: 76e54aef557072abd7eaadca03b7b59d755a1c7bbf4ccb0bb1227075609da960
font_01_sfnt_off00012162.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12162 18720 bytes
SHA-256: de1fe38fc73f96b369ed3d69b7772ff4d0fd55f8e5fb46ccd50cdb18a58e2395
font_02_sfnt_off0001513f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1513F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1