Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 020c878d63ac4595…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 07:20:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 127ff2de9e746490ba2e1e64229f70b7 SHA-1: 56d1994fd3f1d3db9cac7a6a807d5ff6f6c170c6 SHA-256: 020c878d63ac45959462cc05c1ff7749eee33bca8804acb7b5a8082dc690a3e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports the malicious nature of the hosted content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+kind+of+sun+do+geraniums+need PDF link annotation
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/84710580179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/kemudupamasaderabiwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcef547572bde9e9ba6ab6fcf35ddf15/vagitikotadixinavipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/bexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28f33f17d5---dologolukikevoleduvewitov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc7f897e3a---56421901323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/72090170545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4ff970e6a---fenorelonodifivamozava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/logonuvizumimitubetitojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765ceeda988---fanetisodowameg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/42752622561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tanefaditabozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80e6947663---83126916614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093012f535e6---3711096920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincentpopetutoring.com/clients/d/dd/dd6b7bcf94cac99d3bed97cf8166637b/File/lonezikaxakuxafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.cz/res/file/60168764208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01474143efef9c507a5efd03eb12c547/80722927692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085456ac6f3c---26827562211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31851680032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/rivat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcdd85e908f71ae651fb32be2f15da6b/76368385250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a86962d3c---67172684068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/357adaa0564c7271739b203d24ccf506/78396149762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/tuwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e655.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE655 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE6C 10940 bytes
SHA-256: b5d8c67f4f5defee6247c42a2a4bed5ab066efe7ee03e1acd58916192bfb084d
font_02_sfnt_off0001176b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1176B 16916 bytes
SHA-256: df01b2eeb71411f97dfb95332daa074c033af80f7ca5fd457697ebb5bbf0f56b

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