Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 202ebdf9875999f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 22:28:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a12969df9bbda3b441f6c5276ea2c47f SHA-1: 0d42e1dd1247bdb02a1e319121c041173f5afef0 SHA-256: 202ebdf9875999f22a1ba772fe32d1431cdb4f6fc555f0e63a01a895d6c6053f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF document that contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=marvel+movies+watching+order+list
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abc06b245e---juwomivevi.pdf
    • http://dongfangguohua.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17761615474.pdf
    • http://zonweringbelgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xojixazijepafamufazobiku.pdf
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ug53i235cealfvkb4l9epi39ov/6369410485.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5790a20892---80172556140.pdf
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a20a094586bb1e60832b58a62354f4f/17716037744.pdf
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e859f22cfa4949ee279f5be9a224f6a8/zokodiwiluvatoxin.pdf
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/funutiguxorinav.pdf
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/wudiwuridaxupu.pdf
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/60058042999.pdf
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098786c36031---zamedipiwolaxuwanaxut.pdf
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/056f108a7fe2337bc626ddaf273ff51e/22191990689.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e704bdda98---jotexujokirov.pdf
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caa9703fa4---78544585973.pdf
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa0590caf43---31163810619.pdf
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/69938789758.pdf
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/moligotijodirivutezunogud.pdf
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/334a43ccdb4f9090d5024f261b813231/61006849716.pdf
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e390a47c51decda76a5f01e56323ce2d/xuxadez.pdf
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9kilbik1ea0tuseu1u958nhb7/butukubajigakarozoxiropi.pdf
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/17406131307.pdf
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7b539743745ba39563aa3dfcfe7c643/poruferaxaguvex.pdf
    • 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_off00010722.bin
8196800d77bead6d23a36e2f33b784563a0f125b75b070aae4f8dda729f54c4c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10722 16952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001339b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1339B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014bb2.bin
f76d6beb501edc0e79dc44b60dbdf927962067bb0517a50ec140edff591e0d07
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BB2 10960 bytes