Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20afbbf0fe47520f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 20:56:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: a7840e369bdfbce171c433f76bb54e8a SHA-1: 3aa83eaafae2e4472da92379470d11eb66dd9664 SHA-256: 20afbbf0fe47520f9c7a7ea1515a7ef51fdfa41873882d3b2fa27340f95d7e4a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+year+was+the+automobile+invented PDF link annotation
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/biragulefemaxuwumipuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160994728123d6---satowibabolosafexadujez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e225d26b77bed7bed574d71c4a1d449/91321236806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/44863733313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083544f4e592---82492248010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misspacificus.com/clients/873634/File/99608495727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bomtvplus.com/data/board/file/20210518232554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853c0c6a925---viwogegamegabenijepunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a257940bce---85391868221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5be91caca---vilesutojovanixutuvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcd381845bc---xagoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadatv.com/webroot/img/files/86412898892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/kolegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbl60na31a0kqjf4c1ha1spv83/75173264880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olversonfamilyreunion.org/clients/5/51/51a48c89da211807e19ed56f8a1a1822/File/41307719562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c655485023---bomegugoguboxiwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f280aa4664---zetikipuvebagaxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpitrade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29845941124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/91608382566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/40109793927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b161a2bd5---9803993748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fe0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0A 11012 bytes
SHA-256: e53ea05d9441f99957f7b32a766d77bef49d3ad367c078986c546977fe9f6d38
font_01_sfnt_off0001177f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1177F 17564 bytes
SHA-256: 1faf5628eeb15718551bae45445e5e6b23ebb5bce5af7858d03e02472b861805
font_02_sfnt_off0001456d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1456D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1