Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 206929040e3cb94c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-23 07:34:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8cfe76d61373c640580bd92dbc5fa181 SHA-1: ff9755fa39e1ef6eb280975dc91722617a970350 SHA-256: 206929040e3cb94c81fcaea1fd0abfb150aac38d880ac6f16f469950b278f45e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and heuristic findings point to a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6005ca43f---85238749353.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5a909844f525a701c971e870b781476/dofeguses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d14dd792b8---beluvipugebemesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/20504571622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/79312534736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cahvqtd9ubsmp8nrb7ffupk1q1/lawofelematumupepobeviga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvk7qdce67mgkue83qb5dlrfr2/79440283783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/pimir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/49215154484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/zifadumamapebumuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb0ebbf1811---bosumepurejusujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844e2374bfb---figubajoluxakajulabidezol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b520353089f---38938368468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/70020560939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1627025808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5ecdf10c1b---dafuzozovemujareru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/bifekaluboxibuxaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072651b5f987---xurusogadutanekimofonipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/67603767136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c11cb3e1b---nudixujokemomerat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa56152be9a5d954d900fcbcd5cfac43/nuwuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b801af37e6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/48464784788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezclasssites.com/var/wwww/dev-ezclasssites-com/data/files/gifosuragipevoxudixis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcp-ranstadt.us/files/nilogosagisavexidaduweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=accounting+ppt+templatePDF 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_off000103a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A9 10528 bytes
SHA-256: cff0accbb3ec8d67f7036c48648b4a2e6dabdc09a3a6f47ee697413fc27b5ab0
font_01_sfnt_off00011ba9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BA9 16292 bytes
SHA-256: f61258faa753110bbcd7ccc8c28d5f65781bdd92ef99ba2fa2c6e0f73c6ee312
font_02_sfnt_off000145a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1