Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 203bdeb4eb285c76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-16 23:56:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 03a86abe2c4dd04a5f5a1d0cb1ab1e0e SHA-1: c17ba9fcc6a9967ba055d498b967b98e841f784e SHA-256: 203bdeb4eb285c76541ef51af0d7bc5228734439c110c45c215618da338371d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate a likely spearphishing attachment vector. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ec01223472c328cdbc03e02bc31c89e/15558269298.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/popadid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2242bfec147fa4cfd1368fd7aaaf31fc/24604862128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangnampools.com/contents//files/menisalixudutofixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rdg1qu194m3op6si523snnjn7/44807414238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0b77c809bb41d92e1e5adffd2274af/kanagozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/617100594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/11996630523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/8725329352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e881e1c3fcb6464b8681adb04133e2f/5009717072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c338dab7b4d---13344715433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/82201442145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92a08e565c---40798604247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3a64e021ab79a0da9ef7f0e85d671fe/nulikuwurapuwagazadakodaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/16201927707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcsteel.com/uploads/baiviet/files/63154476771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/bokexokumaxekopabopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dehsjgoutgu1fd7dvrra590dlr/71627380624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/60804198935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4cb40f145c---difepiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fe3dc962c3405ec632a2c483a56c193/67357795648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f44a6d8201515a147423f94f2fa565c2/talavadujexevigex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82bfe76ed7908e1c5651936dcd962fa1/29431780782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c23d6875f06226f2649dcb7a5194e32/9822074095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/25925928330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=characterization+of+winston+in+1984PDF 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_off0000efc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 7a671c61b36e03bf14b3699e464c1a9edb7c7f02cad36c4ac7b893e3d4157032
font_01_sfnt_off00011b22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013339.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13339 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 66e832736c330d6f499389c25787c0207000ceef419aef19345431318bc37ce3