Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 020386ecf6d79381…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:41:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fe711b02c41fcf734fbca6e6637d736b SHA-1: fe5ecedc197a5ac34b17d6b5cc44d063b77c03b4 SHA-256: 020386ecf6d79381931dcbc0472ad839cbcf33c6c82abe7108b42b00b27748a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host and distribute further malicious content. Heuristics indicate a high likelihood of phishing and malicious intent, with ClamAV detecting it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be a byproduct of the wkhtmltopdf tool, offering no direct user-facing content but confirming the file's nature as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e4acbd4f51e16c7d29dcbba250623ab/33713402854.pdf
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eae498f210---katafanofosino.pdf
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e86efa0f15a017f69a4457dae928d485/furogolekujolurud.pdf
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b283bc2ee41---faruzafafeperemin.pdf
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46d95c588787e1550ccda3e207c729d3/24079418062.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca0baa97ae---3289064242.pdf
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/22090662309.pdf
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5k3v62hmqb4npmigadinkd7as7/53585832592.pdf
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bc18539b7e2be42dc5bb5954fbd7580/newerenawoledakotaropof.pdf
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/dopevabijikukapozad.pdf
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094cd72cf9e1---tokadeg.pdf
    • http://yokohama-model.com/userfiles/files/5192900361.pdf
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878a936a00d---widezekizusutire.pdf
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/kuzabumafobabosolovumog.pdf
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0aa5a85ca1---zuvinuraku.pdf
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bc5871b9c---75447137177.pdf
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2f3752b5d2fd12588f9c02105fb520b/vaxil.pdf
    • https://yepsell.com/userfiles/files/xavazumaxulud.pdf
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lfghlqtdr65h4be7979p2taa64/gibinepaborugifoterexogok.pdf
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/kilinapute.pdf
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df8c9c123d069b2677ddb0c5cc38a124/21641145408.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+for+beginners+book+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea86.bin
848569e9dac440f842979337813f72e38795d6d2a90f7469ff25c920cc4cc777
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA86 16768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011606.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11606 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e1d.bin
ffb68e05c0fd81d0aae8055000801151bffd9d507bb0bd9c5d52070694635cce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E1D 10976 bytes