Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e203bb27ee68ef07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

594.4 KB Created: 2021-08-01 15:47:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: fbcfea5c7a85f1a7061267103feb1127 SHA-1: 13e280424993a27d047d046dc5a6fc80d155fc03 SHA-256: e203bb27ee68ef0775ecd26e3edbea420d10a755e0cb651202f5978bdf2d4d73
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with one heuristic specifically identifying a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised sites suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8326

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13a967dfdd202007b27ac83c372c5370/nozogedogibinedefedifufa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://coonvalleycc.com/userfiles/file/4746493199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bc8ca5df8---81858714515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marymo.ru/uploads/files/lodizelaporedetifuroberu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fosterfreezesantarosa.com/uploads/files/26935049990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b2e7866f7a---sikopazuroxolazal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/84617864549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpls8s2cffgdjrmu2oohlkbdd3/jexabifiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610474eb04428---pajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c4df1c11b---7991553064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47skdiubqn7242ere97plmqvn4/bumineburezufutinib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0610a03a83---31457494705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/fevesotabimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-label.com/upload/files/50115329046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021073005524773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/kuliseluwisowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3052b198fc99dd34782b81d80ec0ec64/fevagujiwezuputi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wowbond.com/upload/Fckeditor/file/23934681505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/pepefosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+label+a+line+segment+in+geometryPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0008b510.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B510 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 002005a794006726c842750a37f68ca5789ed67158dcd1dbedbdcfb9b3d36199
font_01_sfnt_off0008cded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CDED 17868 bytes
SHA-256: ad6df7b1e65ef15088426937cbacd75082ef932fe212a1c350553c74db22d184
font_02_sfnt_off0008e893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E893 19820 bytes
SHA-256: dbf3023420702cda7e39f872db8752a605d730d9ceb3aafa703d12df314b9f18
font_03_sfnt_off00091db3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91DB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1