Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 202829b83dca7891…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 13:28:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a994cf66aa9cfe34df65a13d9a476911 SHA-1: 1f0abe6d7114c6c7033070576bd5419e98bec458 SHA-256: 202829b83dca7891f32782f74b119cc898a7887613276e510bb10cd74129f47a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious payloads, aligning with a phishing or exploit delivery attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://transinfosoft.com/userfiles/file/jolonelododufatezim.pdf
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f667eaecb8bcc6d14a446eed90bb7146/zasegerenuwimosudobej.pdf
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e468f6a3a1651fb5cde298fbfe99c654/jeweluzi.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff51f71bb6---44304834340.pdf
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f7a9d669d3c0496aed2b0084ab5bd89/gepabanuxilimidi.pdf
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6cbf2abaaa174c2739a0e48b9dce175/49046239587.pdf
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/htqgra45240lg7aukjqftnsqkh/panemajidorojul.pdf
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74mc1p2acddrn2nqfane9deod7/8150628764.pdf
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e818b8d3b---kubugezurawuzekuboro.pdf
    • http://esenkardeslerinsaat.com/resimlerfiles/76373847356.pdf
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3a5983a6d4---suzodelozixenegep.pdf
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/21109392690.pdf
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b030e516e81328df2e2fde5f4b92e301/74544902423.pdf
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52d310bc648bce587c20aed59f841fab/48043275693.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a622a0354f7634cbb362c2a8df9cdbe/34966869148.pdf
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/464876b2d072d358fb0eb0835d4f5996/61788091976.pdf
    • http://gdaniec.com/upload/files/jafejesodulum.pdf
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49b65caab9ac61003b3bf95625523bd0/noziga.pdf
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/19198116895.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb7cba949e---32668350285.pdf
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ltn09spo7ib0j33learh6ui6g/36391102312.pdf
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/sadofaxipixoxolowa.pdf
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/54149695815.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f71862d90---62839650155.pdf
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/60724664467.pdf
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05cb93202d---18234559773.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=the+demand+curve+for+the+perfect+competitor+is+horizontal+because
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001034e.bin
e6b2b6ed68ff02198a17316f355d9249e81a23a05cc9fae4a29fc46110ba2da7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1034E 11216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d32.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D32 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013544.bin
1d13a0cc635d4450c48d1179e49cf36a2c8a0e7f0ec020b786f228882276ec00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13544 16756 bytes