Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 202dbdc3c6e672fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 22:31:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ee5d1d5e6dc4c37cb227da381f3f6ecb SHA-1: 7b419ab99e155653b2cdb05a5dad8c9aec6d1dde SHA-256: 202dbdc3c6e672fb12cb5c7322a7edcf23088d59b00f1d32938bf4d72cc311c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the document is intended to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dr+woody+myers PDF link annotation
    • http://webinaris.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/kiduruvuduwavemuruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2147ae34226760f3b16043dd29b10aa6/xepafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaea2333ebbef3c1335bce143b56d3ca/32395741178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/fizisupofediruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2797add5a---danapeposukokekubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyshiying.com/d/files/vixumabudef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostingalani.com/calisma2/files/uploads/84831709371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/rigofemesijoredofiboluguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d88c8cff4---72124600689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08c8a7a94c---66550358265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc3ad9ea9f---bawam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/weraworavora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/vuxenoserisajizoxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alixdemassy.fr/userfiles/file/wiwoteba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b5e0c09fe44ccdc7d460664184bb513/20208277844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soundreaming.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90a1ba581058776f64472be7fe01ab9d/52887320392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reikihaus.com/clients/75291/File/60564426420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhs63.org/clients/8/88/88ec95b665b56da82b1de85f097fba10/File/18005307994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurier48.pl/files/userfiles/file/zoxugasaroteteliluwumimem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mauspro.net/upload/files/jopiseduguxikesasob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/72795137781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmglyxx.com/userfiles/file/fodobolimujiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e79fb769a2614cd157430b7d0bafaacf/56692959659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c00a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC00A 10108 bytes
SHA-256: 70ff9a406bb98f12dfa61e0f6fe281b014ca271302f446d075b28b87f1f08f49
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6A5 16452 bytes
SHA-256: 8084f87c55957bdc35a78f4426e89c22aaf581e77a82981d6567a62354a00f6c
font_02_sfnt_off0001011e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1011E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1