Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a206dd7550774ea3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-06-17 11:50:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: cbe01775ce52affff8fb724099e084e4 SHA-1: 584b1e2016f44eaa953f2fc6a2c6ce1ca947b3be SHA-256: a206dd7550774ea394111f23c37cc40f4c0f3b5ae53c6f9b7763b6b329cd71a4
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, containing numerous external URIs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=polynomial+interpolation+in+matlab PDF link annotation
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/78876945545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7d3e652000d67aadcfbe206fe78628a/76195115137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a8d8f4b8d8c01029368009b1c8b58f3/goriwajurekeledowaxezelaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c588e72c81c---xiloji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/bidazutuzupaketeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607297b432078---fomesenane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7a92e15a39817b22b898345744aa59c/47016467826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607082ae1aec6---4017513159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodsfamilypride.org/clients/2/2c/2c83419adcf4927d74d3defe18342386/File/bukezalitukip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/30930667474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/05/15/file/20210515_215926_100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/68919829960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astek-telem.fr/userfiles/file/gababot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a8d1a2971c9fb04340d0359d86d008d/51988996498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c3eb03a37324d41515d1f8f2716f3fb/56916177804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e263160ce170e53f2a492787308e9c9/jowolupenafajozizemizejaf.pdfIn 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF756 5028 bytes
SHA-256: 78167ccdb8eb389d7b55ffe7be5af7435fc52dd12fa4378af28ef08cbc661f34
font_01_sfnt_off00010857.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10857 12012 bytes
SHA-256: 0fbda6c49ed6aa5db1faa8711c8417ab2d014c23b2fe8b4a25f26322c91bb235