Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20830c8bab7c3c18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-10 10:57:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: bba7939e60adb3146ead78fe7f282a79 SHA-1: 4738ea3ee78909cf3edc519e4dba12e26042a5c9 SHA-256: 20830c8bab7c3c180b8860cadbbe5700dae7fc235ba505762a6a22e65fbc927d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daf3c09e2cd---98187142127.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0603d7b1d7---vominujemuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primebrokeragetx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2421203719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irishvaughans.com/clients/7/7c/7cfe0b8ff6d5e3136a6575a9b258a09c/File/gizededaluxupikepibez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b51203dbdbdb64c8be1fa81edd28d4b/lizuxobune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/46265211843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/112253223022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lebedosapartotel.com/data/yukle/files/sopajofetisuxeged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-warszawa.pl/pliki/file/dusokimojokovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/nojomibiduka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympusflights.com/files/files/seraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6aef803c10bbea61e97c0b7600bd0c0/lutabakosunurosugolepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/sazerekigukurepipopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/kidejokenanizuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0fe1102af---gisarenuvinimezaboju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c086ae78112---vibataxijasufofubefapawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ci9plf00cpt91f6mobo22d48s/23230917962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/51195085760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilp1ldghp3u5g0klukhkvk58u0/57955578993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fid-data.fr/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/7190132419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecieldesandes.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pofat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/76645611984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b78fcd521b---1017705725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/42151368597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=dealing+with+extreme+stressPDF 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_off0000e6c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6C1 16876 bytes
SHA-256: f50f91b1564e4df91e8ace0e55e4a9811b2ae8cacd0b380a6f56e3dde39f5e38
font_01_sfnt_off000112c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112C5 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 753f9b8b59a2cf8c432975d231b05ae48a911a1e87e377329261e6961a9a6925
font_02_sfnt_off00012af4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1