Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 205079b73933f142…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-08-16 14:47:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 19e3011341ec82a86ef1a01974813932 SHA-1: ca0013565132bdf592f02e2aabd35620acf808bb SHA-256: 205079b73933f142df4436068234ebc06443539f9d6f0f9764a75e60d5ab2038
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting sites, likely to harvest account recovery information. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest an intent to deceive users into revealing sensitive data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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://digireg.ru/upload/29603793473.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6c243912d---mosujimidakevowipusedajep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lucbnc71gm95brib8vh7shdhv3/gunedoxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/12412518859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palestraarkadia.it/userfiles/files/14121132592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28d84c0e8a---punejepavenutusurubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///kojodisazate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c65a91a53---beruzekelenamanififaboxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ab90c001d---tudatawewekotit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/41704928470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acca406fc477199c20a5fa8091b15d21/46773075515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdf4b09a8c0b55a95994348d8aa5e9c9/jofos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--d1achljw0b.xn--p1ai/content/upload/dejerekorowowefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10eadeac2a6ca77108a38360e8dffeaa/25450243408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/kavemitedal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/42495436888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duocvinhkim.com/userfiles/file/walejanubirizimafogeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787f3cc33bb---xevofas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hindel-relax.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nikodijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f60f34585---90503160823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab871b3d2e---xewozobewan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15ubejqm851v4jljs3ihocv7nk/lavibolowuposadojenikano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a13938c481cabf766da99c56cfa35be/22393586624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/94377048659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202107281003319282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=facebook+recovery+code+for+a+friendPDF 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_off0000dc55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f46c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46C 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 6097a0b2fca0494bc4fb7fa1d329a83c463d26858b38740f8b84509dd5d7ca57
font_02_sfnt_off00010c93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C93 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 29124f5c38875c11d01c78a4238a754c5aab1eb14aae669a5f992c302fe7f586