Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 206264a07b6e810c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-08-11 11:52:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3b31faa57ca27217cbe78277c2d1fd1f SHA-1: 5388ba9f487ee326bf7aa19f5d57f3508356be10 SHA-256: 206264a07b6e810cdec98f46669af4753422132c2adc30dac9cda0ef5e9f83d9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of numerous links pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier output of 0.999463 further supports the high likelihood of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8133315830.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b567306ce02---58942464834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/tiwalodutemafopomosop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keemunblacktea.cn/uploads/file/021206087296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/tozugagegumafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f0e57118a---70424044257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078535ba19cc---92466621172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e27328144ef---gosokavigerarivovifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072040105134---teguziduwabutegezevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610054bf3e4f6---rinafiveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e66cb8417d---8131670856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a5ed79b61---40307780184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/22734540461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://media-production.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85300910572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/22185912429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/80459309541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a37f0e6bfbe---nemowagudod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/19454655768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a998ca0e3bf---20853743504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamarkosong.com/contents//files/12190679683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=textbook+of+diagnostic+microbiology+6th+editionPDF 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_off0000de15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE15 16692 bytes
SHA-256: 3d5daf33d2fab218ccbf25f4843d7e5feae841995a93e5679c87db021b0e9e73
font_01_sfnt_off00010991.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10991 11500 bytes
SHA-256: 72d166b62a9057573a79331c79389e3de9d72799bbbe8722b91110381bdcdae3
font_02_sfnt_off00012479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12479 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1