Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d20a886b6937be1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:54:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a34472ea48c24d6cec16d9a4c6f6ea80 SHA-1: aed71f3fb9afb617e7e704621f03d6c80e93f635 SHA-256: 1d20a886b6937be1ca2f703622d9a8deee921d8f1204d7c5f39a3344d8190d06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links are likely designed to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://raylutickenterprises.com/userfiles/files/54211573459.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4847b4d559579a75d964b05ad5ca9242/9058882421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05dfc181d7---40679335116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/118320017cd5fb6b57da5ab1fae0b2bd/konuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc365275a5678718cd20102994dd76e8/49814171342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/javilizasisem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085111170847---faxeferoporituketazeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inannamsao.com/uploads/files/96058223734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsalumniauditorium.org/clients/f/fa/fa32e32112b7cad64a7d7e78b95ed61b/File/11140600232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/pesedipotosusalukivapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0047e68c7d---88154081733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinaconexmec.vn/uploads/news_file/vogisobuxazotovejuferitoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/tanapafupisokafedemedur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4m7q95ocs9b0584tadphcilv8n/40765393416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46243682392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/76367661333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb497461df3---pimuvuletarelubuzasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malabarmail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33442159918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f15fd507fa2---12233619566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210819205211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.com/upload/fckimagesfile/mafopifonujifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/nedewadapozinirajuwofokup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silverstonedevelopments.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tixutikuzexiloposatoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praxis-greve-polley.de/web/editor/files/gudok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607854971e312---suvuwoguxiboxagoruteje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/sedurajijepokidarot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=god%27s+amazing+grace+pdfPDF 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_off0000c44a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC44A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC61 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 2ff274e3b9a78b9a1e62fc090677161b272d490bb7b01d0e94ebdf6cf2aa7509
font_02_sfnt_off0000f59b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59B 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 2e4aea92d22e35dc69ab0fd2d4f5f0e03778087952a5fd4a972abb69740893e3