Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 207828aa1e16cc63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:12:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ee863895ea706b6850f56b51ffe2fbce SHA-1: ca64edf14a7bca21a4b32261800ed8df2c083b5b SHA-256: 207828aa1e16cc63b33796c49149a1e0aab1e5c2e941d38e9aa8a5f43dca4dc5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to disposable hosting and compromised WordPress upload directories. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users to external sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 http://wang023spa.com/userfiles/202109file/2021091515382470554.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23042405908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailcop.ca/files/nofenowovuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodfortune.hk/UpLoadFile/file///novoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ad5247fc557f4f50d6624051bdd461f/5707345963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cb3bf49fc9293303fe7a78507400a1e/gejaweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613017f5862d5---38050894787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zowagubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kp-technik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53902977882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupoaccs.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20143980582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/vogetoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinatriage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57353047520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chineseclothingonline.net/File/30500321141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/43009492303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/36427770880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmar-e.de/userfiles/file/49009388106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/3539113076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/xawotedipasutibudifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreadramatour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_916B86D4E776D0B4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewcommunity.com/userimages/kajapivozujafamoporeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snkpost.com/fckedit_file/file///20210904_23_50_9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speaklifeiamgreatness.com/files/files/17950708303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2ggpi8elfd1glbhtrgtm99gn2/43113554320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/zekimonizujesirejidoluvaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/36819301910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/62983117980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+empty+cache+on+android+phonePDF 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_off0000d630.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD630 16360 bytes
SHA-256: a8722feaf8ada8d9e3431c6bdd986d4aba4bc44312f8123363db4fc6c535c872
font_01_sfnt_off00010087.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10087 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 16e3f519ae3d9e8e5666f103a5cb35014109bd18b3293f74e09366f19d349944
font_02_sfnt_off00011918.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11918 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1