Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20079d3b2138b1d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 04:44:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 641a1d356348f393f8edc545e1148840 SHA-1: d6af87f5296ef97183612a2ac61ec81dff856249 SHA-256: 20079d3b2138b1d474678c05b679e6c7a576ac696bf1547c6023ebf1ad590976
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to trick users into visiting potentially harmful sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pink+purple+make+what+color PDF link annotation
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ed9e8602c3424704aa000e9fab04988/rikakaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b6tj18ar500btnf3g96180r3/vulogewagowibeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor80.com/clients/866172/File/fedanetuvebifaxabipefaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/36928873192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609630026a6a8---bavifawinalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee4d33c6b329d44534aebc701b4e440a/goraginubenapomifususus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/67110938495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/vewudiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa721345fd72f60e0d33f19e720fbd4e/15921262989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legouic-peinture.fr/userfiles/file/riwurixafanozabalarovotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/87467072859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/fajemuxetebasarudena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08d207b870b135f19431f193a1a450fe/jumesebiwobaruwitimat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761f7ac4863---37043831930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f7fc62c52fd8a7e97b3d2828973d9be/4034702017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bb9b7350ce7e3193b0dc251a4c826be/18381058008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pc4v31f249olv62jae195r6shj/76130912110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9699c10ed8b61b875fcf0b071e9b34b3/4161395374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7952d61dc6afb6ee754aea3d80082d9/kejufefarawelebexuwajazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotledlight.com/userfiles/file///novagupifiborugilibize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfacgroupe.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/vivirerupubugivoporamage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/deninuvirajobatanapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa46b0b8ca---30772195897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3f85d1e733fda33cb4c64ef84827631/41458752832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ef7616c3b---38353378035.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_off0000f1e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109F2 16748 bytes
SHA-256: 72aaf800224b824ba877b40cc630ce003232edb198d6848767b5c38f8bac5f4c
font_02_sfnt_off0001356f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1356F 10752 bytes
SHA-256: b6c125724d148da7937a88a0c9fe1c6633018aa599cedc3a5aba2d8de755c1f1