Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c209e6897d9db8dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-08-08 17:45:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e8c4d2d215895ecfec47aa52bd1abe10 SHA-1: beab6ef688e081d9478bd6c4f395b2fdf10a9693 SHA-256: c209e6897d9db8ddb0a1ef6180a74f6f3dc1c8b7998f958534e0f90d857ddf75
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of attempts to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4da20796b---kuwasora.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zanhotel.ro/beficientconsultingFiles/file/zemewitekekaxokew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/59656958804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/tonibomuxovurovodumano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd9tbkbj35n90ig3c5sl08p86i/2546193049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/59537184381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210518212951_1011933398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrbossamktown.com/uploads/files/lekimugatat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarkstownhs64.com/clients/2/25/255c49a504cbad61718694d8b78dfcdd/File/63328267946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12784352731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13b05987cf24d57a4932aa55fc31e58f/68094483848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/51376404485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a01656c449---35427183256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohstigers66.com/clients/d/da/da15611725e7ba20b6827cbf2e24f87d/File/65959570177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca8a83b95b---fuvukewajupixoxibokur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/8211572030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f49da7b55a---25680986985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/101b636ac68d96ce88b16816f163413b/valobusefojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aerotechgroup.ru/img/outer/files/gojafukelizabawigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27jjrp5d75pfpbnnlr9svu18a9/7032522043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/numodilufepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/85075162298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02b7c77214364f8bc82e2dd4a43611aa/kevepopevekuxupupanamad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36f2f201652916c7150a30a3902adcad/7547432212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=pharmaceutical+organic+chemistry+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000b6db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6DB 16796 bytes
SHA-256: c20b0b5a03a6a5fbd250d1b7d54848dcd4c6bdb0ebe3076bfeaabd63035fcec9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000faed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAED 11368 bytes
SHA-256: 164d674304e95e29f2c2a6f295e28ef47ff57b88af76a92aa2dbc7255325f7c8