Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c207a7e48e5367ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 22:03:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0ea29c3fc52b4162e355701ac49afddc SHA-1: fe0a1c7af147e0d701512e6cf5d363eca24acccb SHA-256: c207a7e48e5367ec0c5337b46d1087a9587e78489cd2ea3f0daf5a8afc213ccf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or scam lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the presence of numerous external URLs supports the link farm finding.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://bhhangkhong.com/upload/images/files/sinimorumodapisok.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/sipera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainindo.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/zekipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovec.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26510482060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/xawidexulexoxarapajefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdsps.org/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/20113628119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384f38e822e---zivewolusupuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/15107955146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/93927814752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/bujimiminafuregoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/lanumebibikupejozono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133bffcb9398---90465216285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161330ee4c50ee---wugaligofupusegivewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printjet.pl/pliki_user/File/nuzokonojubilujajiwofure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydtmuhendislik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fujojubarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-plast.ru/foto/files/lewesexulezanefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kipia-nn.ru/userfiles/file/93994418318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvanthanhlapcongty.biz/upload/ck/files/68562591991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nada70.org/userfiles/file/pefoburinogokosinup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/352dbf2504e313d5cbf30835b4eef8a2/zoxadebosavud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cincia.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kululotujoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabstina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84997425310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti.pl/userfiles/file/23965838843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukatwebsitesi.trakyasoft.com/upload/files/sipagopepuwidorolelajin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/jilepefumoros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/36494572783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hospitalityroyal.com/upload_files/file/logezukinutaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+screen+pinning+androidPDF 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_off0000d056.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD056 17508 bytes
SHA-256: c46a44d390eebbf025e17b860da1d6979c026f7fc37dc099c66deba8084fdc43
font_01_sfnt_off0000fda9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA9 10740 bytes
SHA-256: f178f4d6696f0ff701eca8fe98604021c1ffd647a0f67b52a69a115943bf674c
font_02_sfnt_off00011623.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11623 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1