Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20421a72972818b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:28:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e6bf32877b8c355c5c693aebc365086b SHA-1: c7de803989ca7b5c601ed5bd80020bc4c0d64f3c SHA-256: 20421a72972818b23db500b9a7ee571876a41c1b3faf79ea68e965319f85226f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF contains a link farm with multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a lure to external malicious resources.

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://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d23b02332b---47385820821.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/alrninht6irh9hmllmpbq46kun/43290948556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdalehorseboarding.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4535855539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/847655a88fa8d2b39c71f28d7439c7c8/89495899286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3446121f9---31432627608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/todezesabizozuxevigudase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e8fe9ce3a---xidavazisopetevogakudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00ea24b5579516c6183e18ee36375a59/70086869258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhibaosang.com/media/ftp/file/bimanek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e4dc13314---55591305622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citrasas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boluxajuzib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795919a1c34---60973838653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0d2a9500f---18623231993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f07673665f---sesataxajovigebetak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/79619213116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transfertrolley.cn/d/files/83525331398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/46974813000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99fb07cf5c---vojulesimonatepimovage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ko71ptn2jnnpl1rm3kt3uit30/23965489940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f4e7dd35c---76857450194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/51768678526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae44ea7d62f---33665308715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/sapunefob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79vca3g8jcmeh6omttigj7o1i0/filexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=common+name+for+ch4PDF 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_off0000eab8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102CA 17348 bytes
SHA-256: d35450f229952d5fcdc2b21f8c58b12d6b6fac28f2819550f80bb7594577ab19
font_02_sfnt_off0001306c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1306C 10304 bytes
SHA-256: f395403028f4894e95a8f01e694009e3441c5128d6fb330a15cc716f1c3a812b