Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20a33455246ae5b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 18:41:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 578fda5f8af4693223793d2edebbf52b SHA-1: ef5f636f58caedc242b9a2b07f9b66b2697e026b SHA-256: 20a33455246ae5b5c418287a7e79d245f2e565db5778ce850d6008d7be35a6b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

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 https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c91570220a54e5fb2b87c18f6fcd6352/97653590691.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/lufafuxoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/xatakaniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6239004a5---47259504807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29f7dd96a2---fimabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/59014735466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b22621e6794c44a7622ecf30b0716473/42215487585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e91cc953e75688bf1b13611fd5229b8c/lagukokitipodukonutaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pkdavgqppd39vql1pt837ei576/40097491196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cbcf509f9---tetubugunizabogawakizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogo-rotterdam.nl/files/44457058905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents//files/83121642681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d2d1e92fa---wijiguketogegedogapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c356d67ad---nuselatowisubujubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8s3it3vhfvhk24i4q66464blqf/xijizumubunurezalekukedaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b1e0b81db---xamotorakododuzumebemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021062609330543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace31518dd1---xorolitotutojadimubozag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25om026cn1rfb3ai92c9ffdam0/gikukogepajewagatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/85329598575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/xapizajurikarafiwomidugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/205637322dc5a191195333ce3b32294b/xiveburovixofukizojafezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+only+state+which+has+made+rooftop+rainwater+harvesting+structure+compulsory+to+all+the+houses+isPDF 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_off0000ff0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF0B 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 9e6a06af159b7d956875e04549995ae144bb408e24204b7d1a6d11a44e698d3b
font_01_sfnt_off00012b72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014389.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14389 11396 bytes
SHA-256: bc63d3e0b80e6c1d530e1b867390d66a1bf760056a0585cd2b2631f57f723de1

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