Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 207ba414b70d2659…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 09:49:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8579cf628a03eaad4a16465559474a28 SHA-1: e175c927902b93d8adb38b3403dcf3442c2490e1 SHA-256: 207ba414b70d265927bf8ff2bfc6a0243602173a696d4739bbd7093207239ccd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to drive traffic to these sites, likely for phishing or SEO spam purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9800

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 https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93c7326a2d0dfad972e96ea1729a231f/divomu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95061293144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720a45e66e2---xegowolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/ravazenumidodoliworaweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765fb06d9c7---bujozemavufazaduwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fufubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606c79bed863a---91022064840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/solofewufusiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/9280331597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/514cd60bcfcfae8fc0136efdd17a344f/kitasuwuzenidekeditegoden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772f449a8b4---tomidutiwodolaromanuxidos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/4755184598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baa0e2623d3b8d599cc2ef01d484b3a7/72477496383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/zowavosozanubabago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895b4a0e93a---51247920850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.vn/files/usersfiles/files/81176989923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sterkrade.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tubito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodabo.eu/userfiles/files/7977380708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gwynharmon.com/home/gwyn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dikuketuwemekerixos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90aba127b7f64192d1eff5d4fe73628c/2387916123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e1ea66c64---lezifuvaxijisifugifame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eb3600c07af446f488bdc31e9a64061/visegokubelixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775abd4241c---kijedoruzom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumterhigh89.com/clients/863574/File/balaxutur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb949c6fdcf---75700021268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fructusartis.com/i/File/77575008910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+best+colleges+for+computer+engineeringPDF 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_off00011a78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001328f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1328F 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 12cfcffe863045fef79552a8050fdc2bb63287692d85b174749738cd69074006
font_02_sfnt_off00014c41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C41 17668 bytes
SHA-256: 7b9b5f7e78f70d61ce0f1a42bfd05341b2e2370d9e8a405fca5c6272f27593e3