Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 207885f6816f2a7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-10 20:16:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f2a70cad77191489bdda1b3f259ba8f6 SHA-1: 718adca537d976f2898adc191c24b37ebed68db8 SHA-256: 207885f6816f2a7fd2b447f3cba99ee3119b18e04ec74bfc7dc65d6487c3f788
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true malicious intent and potentially leverage SEO tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=electrophilic+substitution+reaction+examples PDF link annotation
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/35329010246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/61521755694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pj24219dkdofp8sq5vgujs9ka3/delukefutekoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93b547cffa29f1014e496b3d22dc5089/jomukinobinawesikizewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d682c848a---97759091204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/44297942297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jphe00lgsvlr8uvqfvggk4a461/83322807117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca8a9d3c29---rafubojamezew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c6cfe08e3e---nojesigomadibogavagasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/78515148776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/bofedibowofozave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb39250509---konigasagemudagokog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00ed8da639c067aeae3291da83815b02/34674264115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cf555efc3018849914d6a4e9af34a6a/18174636683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b469a5478fb---paredewadakafelax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a7c1ee741---64491236437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE697 5220 bytes
SHA-256: 70580d4e52dcfa74d2672d69269297ad80e7f0f486e377742601e7f009cd52f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF821 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 3f22daf8a3d05dfa2643ea2307d86e4b422d1c72a995b829a4e937218f093fad
font_02_sfnt_off00011d69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D69 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 532315dfdc59b350d447ad91845dd8cc72a836e684f536ab9a4305dc5b53fb8e
font_03_sfnt_off00013299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13299 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c