Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20036694f00055a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 22:21:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: c924688afd6a29e30dc39f7f83adff81 SHA-1: 8d2fd9fd8bf8d4bcd7e32e3fed49bb94044deb41 SHA-256: 20036694f00055a5a31886a3ca8b860ee152b62b3bb1981fea4b604c8b65d5b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, pointing to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The primary purpose seems to be redirecting users to external content, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mojoo+poker+pool+mod+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/pisafukezawera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaders-adv.net/userfiles/file/767819305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef779bf61a22dfaf448c4bf9a0b8dfcd/6502579106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360019a0427---zejidiragufonikosunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/kivugibabutenexiruref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/36762909767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldpigment.com/image/upload/File/babinotodafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/lakurofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabconstruction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7192277378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/57581811466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfe.hk/userfiles/13532848837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izeninfo.net/admin/upload/files/lerejoxuteniwitopurisoset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353f581d71f---jojow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quartierdete.fr/uploads/fckeditor/file/32132930635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/dowitilokizogigulusit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavalentina.ro/app/webroot/file/busanubuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapetcenter.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/bipusoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lobnya.ru/upload_picture/file/roninudinimikijura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.ch/upload/tuviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/91776966918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akilanews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48361163127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31878553784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecosdaliberdade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29349121778.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_off0000def1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF1 17904 bytes
SHA-256: 4c9121ce39bc6319da587c07103f49966984af6066cec72f1b510e14ccf0fb4d
font_01_sfnt_off00010d49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D49 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012560.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12560 10496 bytes
SHA-256: f303d05d3d6886e9af1b4aeac211375ea1935a9f15f17b9da29c90b0c63270be