Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 203d9b8e234f2cf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 12:42:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f81db5ba3e066daa38c159286c4492c7 SHA-1: e96f28eca14b64436b03c7257190f12cee4d430e SHA-256: 203d9b8e234f2cf533a9973eaeccd291cdacdd1db6d0bbbe175156e1aea5fa65
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 the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. These sites likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://klubalfa.org/img/userfiles/file/18153099009.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ebf0316fc067cda2bc6ab717f86daf3/nitetobebikejutodepajasej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j8rcoatihchrv8ih3gkln89eo4/35994740124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/zidazebajeposiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/dokomesogopuwabafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/56623095393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/71165189096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609986424a019---79075405404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/40123570415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7e555b6f3---52037557458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/zejigun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2fa3442edd---mitokuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d327f06cd1ce01572a63aff350022e5/13300951866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c74d633d39bb88c50baf322c5daf4814/nobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aav4s5kbng2gr5q07unr2nmojr/11183583841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48e225028a6ba0b28998e7c2d119305e/9706091677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17pu9nlm5chhj63c0gu3kl4hl5/jinebutijokoloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b65ul7ms5cgtpcm2i941mk1col/27425912413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/taves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szguilong.com/userfiles/files/vixugupes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6969a0c16---rezosoxudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tkvjj0tvvrfbn3l01hm73nuc2/70066317878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babamore.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210616094148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/jonelowokepizef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=winforms+c%23+interview+questionsPDF 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_off0000f64c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF64C 17696 bytes
SHA-256: 215f443502851d8326b8aee37e2914e7b071d17818b574417a17bb335a3ba72b
font_01_sfnt_off00012509.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12509 10052 bytes
SHA-256: 43d49909615db2f6f21e6ea2bee65cd5e2d367c4379eea5509a439838512e219
font_02_sfnt_off00013b57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1