Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20248e029fe849ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-29 22:02:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3cddc7bff618415c420b2410aa7a2245 SHA-1: 76401106ad01a19ddba2e668aa2e0986978f56af SHA-256: 20248e029fe849ca5ab46a972f945a495062ae49747788624a957e7fe8633aba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. This behavior is characteristic of phishing or malware distribution campaigns, where users are lured to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://nensi.si/upload/file/pitejijakulodanazifajela.pdf
    • https://delcinfo.ru/img/files/files/tisosobexefuxitiwawimuwal.pdf
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/70019384372.pdf
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080efc65a649---liwebepegugazonuz.pdf
    • http://saigondome.com/uploads/userfiles/file/36452135152.pdf
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/totakefuwapokinovidufu.pdf
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13c68e78c759097a413d0d10f0247e45/59116442912.pdf
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/2157787296.pdf
    • https://hissekurban.com/resimler/files/weguwuzesazarase.pdf
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/xoxuwo.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1febdf18e---62157331924.pdf
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/18769838293.pdf
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ea7a76b6ec4d56889c7bca3de6d2505/tusovapanaxuguzikekuje.pdf
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3etrle3jc5ilat5hii5pmmg1e/xivibiboribupo.pdf
    • http://jjburgerut.com/uploads/files/61352322406.pdf
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5867b6a9af---26311528510.pdf
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/23352720647.pdf
    • http://cheapmarkt.com/userfiles/file/sumalegujelefowulejebe.pdf
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/woluvesowewovagobex.pdf
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c80d0cf43---55255879187.pdf
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/sijofolas.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=namaz+e+janaza+ka+tarika+aur+dua+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off0001329f.bin
0abb66a7d550823027e0b27ade925e6942a1902548f74dfe946c203a030ebaad
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1329F 21644 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000d4d7.bin
cdf7195f73e62066b97f2f228b482f277e689b227439775a8e0990418a61baf6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D7 17376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010213.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10213 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a2a.bin
4abfa5a1c2983db37c20e096b1ad30b5c5caf9a4fa1c8b3dd54fae27dc3cd8c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A2A 10684 bytes