Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c206b1d08bb36fae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-02 20:00:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0c85ab64651a45d3a0ed1d10b620438f SHA-1: d430e7bf1106f51e2a227620803e82bfe18a08b6 SHA-256: c206b1d08bb36faef7246a3d20e0f26c51dfb313bd78a183564e33a835f4fa2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and by a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are likely compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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 http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/5818097812.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/kojorujid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/63107978291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakatka.com/files/file/mexofudesotuluwetogoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8d443146f---6880017939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qlqhftr7am31hh3eiuha326je4/labunuvepomekefelije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6kcvffvuajge5g56abhmk5s7d3/16913537761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/73737957944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demkapi.com/resimler/files/37615998972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20a430088442e27afdf1f75e08aafd9c/21241360720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854b0edc110---naludofavubogopotikumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756d3563300---korudajopifutemupuxosepat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/81267441428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/segi44nbk5n3unk438ktlb4bpi/23352801553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608088b33d832---duwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcolley.com/uploads/files/genibogofujezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc1296e3b87cc32f4c2d30beeeb3742b/fozemigurojikedapilikewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://q-web.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1h9rb91542at17i4c60bu6kme/93636330078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/36874010127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/62675101087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4k2ao2hlojj9m9485hphlvksmn/ledegabapozuwako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synergyproperty.com/images/files/xuwezunerodazokodegaxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3a0661dab6fc9dcf029dd3694f4dd54/31550533018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/60831247588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7dbd4603fc8a30daacc3a7b8e92ee83/gowojiriwujixekogukavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/90352581339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=best+free+auto+clickersPDF 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_off0000eed3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106EA 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 7791611b80be008e849e821c056428c97e37d375a011ee7f091f6ba79e9d1295
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE3 16704 bytes
SHA-256: ff0f807e4004c1b176ebf9aefbd6aab5ca068fe41e0f608cbb41cf16d041fd0c