Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 204b16ccbe94f666…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-10-01 12:26:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8520922991b4453ce7b286c456c37396 SHA-1: 72554d2394a4c1a5b3dd35d7da65effea1aa7446 SHA-256: 204b16ccbe94f666fc29486b502b4b55054d01cf1a9415266a6b243abe025a0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL distribution are characteristic of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what%27s+the+best+weapon+in+modern+warfare PDF link annotation
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/39385637176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_4463DFA14B337EEF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/30671587340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d120111fa1---52216843440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indcms.testingmachines.com/images/file/zejiwefemujagiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baiduvpn.com/upload/files/zejorudakodezavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f72da393f---miluwuruguwunamagire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contal-farmer.com/uploads/files/nejurusugimuwebozigofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ee7c62cbf---tesere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhzsolutionz.com/userfiles/file/jubipafinufivajipamovupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljuboori.com/userfiles/files/ranulilinexikixodekodolix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/27727781147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/norizetukoroja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyermekhaz.hu/Content/site_images/files/sabufexexakemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/36737085901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apatity.verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11288317430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solartgaleria.hu/images/file/19676493580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.kr/new/upload/board/files/fawamufipitefor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-ex.net/userfiles/file/fejopumakupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thoitranglani.com/upload/files/8072103122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canshu.dlzj.net/upload/files/20210904181424842509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20211001_122132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imcborivali.org/userfiles/file/xuxewinedidusozufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bifruit.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bulevad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehair.center/upload/ckfinder/files/kuwudomikupenodutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/22040243569.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_off0000b336.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB336 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB4D 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 637769f5284f08f6a6a2038f275bcc9cb7a4bbe8865c8b8f1a174e62f1d6806a
font_02_sfnt_off0000e465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE465 16740 bytes
SHA-256: 9e9a4ed0eee72275ac1c177be0c1f02634920c5627e0efeafd5357687a9068af