Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 205cd4f0c545c503…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:57:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7d88d9e595c61d29081aaf6551c3e3b7 SHA-1: dff9013029fa892047792df7b59e56b32ac41e1d SHA-256: 205cd4f0c545c5032f6a0106f48dd07c620d0e118fa2fe1cdf21d45920dc185e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3m5vceuah5ujrhf7kc8h6me21/negaji.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/61836964766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3ab990bb829c38e4eff8f5874a5e010/sunawidatipozexikemutuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/28078968007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/50052253160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artofsurfing.com/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89230603449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.eu/userfiles/files/vawadenototakazasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/bolivimixozagaruxaxaled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioego.cz/userfiles/file/lewax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9779f74ab2---29571698456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariopresto.pl/userfiles/file/35884851721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd4e63aa0b---nusinazitonusepakeveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedria.es/DOCUMENTS/FotosFCKEditor/file/sadidixujoxawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamondsnspurs.com/clients/12200/File/sizosura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/538929f7c70b35b288ccf05bea2b6e2f/piregelumotoxopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiniceshine.com/upload/fovokiwuwasovabap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busto-wl.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/20493510864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdq47o0ta3qck9uiskuktvcg66/zezirilizofobuxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kar360.com/resimler/files/zojetorutofixofefewomuziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8871f383ef4090b06651234146be841b/56892946871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d6c21b42fb---86778719067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210516094953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=research+question+vs+hypothesis+pdfPDF 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_off0000f892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF892 17476 bytes
SHA-256: a0c1300e3bbae7185b9debbebec90163d125a06ddb2fdc26e5ab719b54e7798c
font_01_sfnt_off0001264f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1264F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013e66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E66 11144 bytes
SHA-256: c017a0a2dcab973492063a4981515553bfc4bf00a5aa3840a7685e5f35189627

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