Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 202d12feeba4e3fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-08-15 10:25:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 852c371dc8b95373aed2e02dbdf86b08 SHA-1: 3ec0a6ba95324b4738a73c29fb54938cd28b03f0 SHA-256: 202d12feeba4e3fed708ab200f8388929c76ebff9722066ae2db7f6821ae266e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload sites and other potentially malicious domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall pattern suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://vattucongtrinh.com/userfiles/file/95539971915.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://commsoft.nu/demo/ktb/wsmbilder/files/dutakafukogokuwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74441932b4d98e20df90a58571ca85ec/zodomaxuwozuwomenineto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0r6fu5357iqrmc14tt0s58esj/tuwije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlfjhcb8qilrardfqij2jitkfb/70640877683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56ea81da6044bbac38cca52e9ed48feb/gilares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sioc0vuihji37s3hhasmna6d1q/kasasumedofawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/dusil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088750414d27---62946514875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/176efdf0d9e6f7a1f83a03b22ca2ca42/17455913500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777cb11ec8e---74313944664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa4f6d1139---womosixukejufilofoxexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/puvujafidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuturesthai.com/uploads/file/gidalemewenini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superpart.com/files/43757808511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed5f36c1d4---23343457902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inphuduong.vn/upload/files/kibilipebilivodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b73c84e1130f7cac3268fd3cc01108ef/87955218921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/jalevujitawobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asahiru-ban.com/files/files/gunodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilatheshow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vewuxejunuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getampedmag.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98843249705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e355816ab1---40213697669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=past+simple+and+past+progressive+quizPDF 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_off00010126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10126 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001193d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1193D 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 2c68cd697e10830fbbd5815949f2b75387fe902cbd897e947e17c55a8210c59d
font_02_sfnt_off000132a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132A2 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 87284c3b323a5f031860f50ba1d9c2dd8bcadf2ee18a4d052f369f7656942f9b