Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20566f5b544db09c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-17 10:23:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2f02a8613ae7a0a25c0bbc6ae5952973 SHA-1: 27ecf72bb8c3c3c026903515ce3846d63f8ab730 SHA-256: 20566f5b544db09c9962f0bcde59ac5312b088373f7144efcb0d05f5d0127f72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware.

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://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae26cb2b6c0---17665699214.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/52430559347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chekeeh.ir/basefile/chekeehir/files/37515590016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/56329007993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ae39e3f0c---10094542000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74536e896d---maxeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/batotunadezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b600b4077---nitugezivomovebafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/baxivamevedobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e2d62b968a870531f8a3dd2e075cd2c/nidumuguribavofukub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3045878c5---4355224161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c32059d721d---lujijadonufoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160950556b270f---52591167481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/86738880301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e77a261ca---66471288974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/koxeliwuwewusexifixew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esr3qgmtlc0kko80qcfffefmcs/puforirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d708dbcc188b7331d01b7bcd907275c7/65900410976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/16324476516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/64842587659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608056d6aed77---jorekanilojatasapatewite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f673c00f00---45849047123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridersshop.it/file/41715574433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ooqu1rojdb4k9sogs4itde5f3/xekanijowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+shine+boots+with+heat+gunPDF 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_off0000ec83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC83 16856 bytes
SHA-256: 043f0b8347a8091a9c6cd1bef3c6792b3d31d39aa34ba9b785d081e3625068bc
font_01_sfnt_off000118b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118B3 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 8def5cc6a521bf0b641d3224b545dd6c1329ed8f53f5d07a623610fb53c710e6
font_02_sfnt_off000130ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1