Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20b0c90638c8e216…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-08-17 10:17:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 772e5bcffec7705cd36301b6286a95fa SHA-1: 13d6b3a131eaa5090426bbd06cb23a07b0bd5b36 SHA-256: 20b0c90638c8e216d8d2079c059ae1e47d9b9c7c28e0b7c48c3945a92795af74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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 http://naturallymine-chicago.com/clients/867610/File/36595185288.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dfh-consulting.com/userfiles/file/15858779373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bkdvfq5edkpdtci0c7flsmkd89/64281317828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///bosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866bf91118e---66928041961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinedelhi.com/userfiles/files/59899659815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehbo-oostkapelle.nl/userfiles/file/76146469704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/fenixorabeparobajage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudrun.com/home/mud/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13213362165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geostudio.eu/userfiles/files/pogusajixirogos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//kigaxorariwisenuvaguru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8lvkvlic98po74ejamht89k5l0/tinukaxinuxejux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/xosezesadowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bifenidijulisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28f6651538---xinatipoleripagalenotepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vendingchat.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/14481599068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5f4778352---diginebexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canigrup.com/userfiles/file/siwurozilupezasavija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolshunoff.ru/images/wysiwyg/file/42337305989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personnelcle.com/userfiles/file/10114847482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaxolakodilivozavinof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210605_C8E1C3FE9DBAFE2F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2767db9cedac74095a3dff2ea1c023f/61686660473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/lanarazuramibebozufuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+observation+method+in+sociologyPDF 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_off00011993.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11993 17612 bytes
SHA-256: dec60f0495f79816c65d7be82f958927f6317c4b53c9191c475137ecc1cf24b3
font_01_sfnt_off00014749.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14749 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 0a838a39abc74e1afeed9f7be53ebafbe52d7857886f713055944e87331103de
font_02_sfnt_off000160f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1