Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20adec6f0dad4d86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:10:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3d70739a6433e7b44af4d1ea1883dc40 SHA-1: 795476e6fc7f3ccb2826e769f7e2706fb28eb9aa SHA-256: 20adec6f0dad4d8648a05c947dfb3fede839b3d1968372ce96cefb44fef22139
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content, aligning with phishing or malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b08d1959012c67e87bce6ef04875ce81/80287919041.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46743974c3---84740226084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/wizefifisebifaxorol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/sikudiwekusanasotasatak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b03db790b1f42b39563c14c6755a2502/20466912744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be5365d3743abfa9159520a3b3d86ed7/zujup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af998a2e9ba---muzazakuvanekabuzuzolipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4atndijebedvnhc16s6hbg31b1/23458647106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vae0j7drq3rqkdk28aak4c6lt2/kebefusebogonujazoseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arket.io/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67bsqj11t8b0m5o4cenab77goe/190575548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nv6bnilpshten9di6cpa5oddmc/49192234510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0832ad50d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815a3e7c329---63297671914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/gukona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf68dbcede1---kuguxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/metelarowidipuvijoson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a3a81cd4d---19123703128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobonoli.com/userfiles/files/93182751600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/md8agmc86iq5ntpvgsvh817ea7/98021593131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/wozimajukazuwabasipitode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b3fa4dc30---75652224426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c782e6d37---fakilozije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e93a80fe79---17496296393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c54aiuu8c153g0h6pe5ehvfv30/37120339188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=mass+of+isotope+calculatorPDF 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_off0000ee7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010691.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10691 10460 bytes
SHA-256: ad6c0e3444af08d45a0684589877c68954d3db3c13875c7160b3f3961dd461a9
font_02_sfnt_off00011e7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7D 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 58b1d96531051f57b32bd762439dd7ed875d34a1d03891f0361ca5f58666987b