Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 209a4a4ba6c49baa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-06-11 17:11:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 8a416fed466c7ed405ae3e16c8cc8e8a SHA-1: 18e7218d58ddbf41e04bab0f3b75c878ea2a9c43 SHA-256: 209a4a4ba6c49baa4166f076e0aa0b6ae081408df4c788a07ceda7534b007b26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=captain+marvel+isaidub PDF link annotation
    • https://dietacud.eu/upload/file/jiganixekopop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b37a23ab4eaa8e7fee0d954f04ee71e4/88705625169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3i09b04s1ke9sdc8bsld1q7f4/wezovol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7d8765eb22feecff4de4714828ac61b/36335100107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e75adee6b3554185d26877ce0e79293/kesogirugeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/58553426879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9f2889f8e87ac3168f3486b31974665/58189972702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc9uqu9uei2lv8grdujli8aj55/ragabegikaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/64329873589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1a3ad639a---57877709650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/dipubav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eclpkojs73pru6i9u3tbmgorl2/fitibimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4ue40v8r8pous1tfq76vo3kbq/62941106092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44e9af9999ad608548d6f27989a03518/63329781829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/jemet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seigyobannkaigaikikaku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rosolodubisotir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00011f06.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x11F06 13836 bytes
SHA-256: d2c721048ff056827b75d266c0765ba408f30a837d94d33b99ff13252d5794ff
font_00_sfnt_off00010d71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D71 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 97e66e88c086d17b1a38f21f6ac53619a487e1c9d2e62fa3c7aa1bb5024cde25
font_02_sfnt_off0001417c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1417C 11764 bytes
SHA-256: 29c42d987493993d04ee19182d9bfab1d45c6d5d255c628990ab380f082675f7