Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 206f9bd94b5d73c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 16:03:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 76205ac5086a5aaa7071ac0d3d1d9fd7 SHA-1: feb33109a6014a385b8acc5a43a87ba77392dfb6 SHA-256: 206f9bd94b5d73c12c14ee7968923b8775029bf1fd75f71cacf35475e2a7f519
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links to compromised websites and potentially malicious files, indicating a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards a malicious link farm designed to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8493

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shape+and+hybridization+of+pcl3 PDF link annotation
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/78904258908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b688e79f0012e152f16527c7325ad4d/gibaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/xukesezosanijexerukufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkngsp.ru/upload/files/25771830958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/15126970739.pdfIn PDF document text
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