Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a206d20b7d07bd8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:02:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e948e54c75d2b9e681a525772b035f73 SHA-1: 6bd28f78bc10b00d078b23f361e517d126d67256 SHA-256: a206d20b7d07bd8b2a4ee8e50ae58827ea83592dd8887c7f00b2a1cced8890cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on disposable or compromised hosting indicates a deliberate effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lexicographical+order+definition PDF link annotation
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d76ec07bb0d---guretetokovika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac1f42bd99ebabd8c11c2765ee0c11bf/rotux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1760b2d4ca---wajijadiviwiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gico.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11950019770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c4f57eced52b35b8c1ebbc8ef189f4b/gojavufawureruzova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb31c1fdad---58228146986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/didifujesuritesulekedeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcde.kr/userfiles/file/negazumuwukezuxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/29462597337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee5260b1c065090af928cfde80ae32bb/zimepimizoliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/mezazude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulsacentral1963.com/clients/3/39/398188050227c7f1c8b3045a0a865105/File/73701510180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c64bfbb8954fb48c24f3d6c3cfee377/83169013838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7cb60b731c8b63b69ac39197f973fe2/xarazazida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c4566f75---96424322641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfab00606b---sutizosozuranafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f15118cd95214ca478b00bb480eae7d/xuwidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb55c9572b---gedibudukobalukalebunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03b1560cc71630be0493ea712be83799/77921544986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/vexupoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bd314b4564b95ce7c33400f0be10e20/88262775996.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b21c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB21C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA33 10792 bytes
SHA-256: a58e254b899cef0a9f6623dd5310ca5eb7ab8c2d72cdeac52a6132989e545dce
font_02_sfnt_off0000e2c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C7 14884 bytes
SHA-256: c51e766cbf4a048031dcbee5b81fc07b2a9142fd3aafacc044e3ddef2c253c20