Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20b7062f4d665cc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB Created: 2021-06-10 17:38:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e8dd83b3d0906fc3996f9556ca247a8e SHA-1: a51bf9658e6225e709db4249dbc635f6405ce9bd SHA-256: 20b7062f4d665cc4923a4777b3b943aaff0c6a8f0aca665273434b9b2035f00a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to media downloads, likely a lure to entice users to click the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ishq+mein+marjawan+season+2+title+song+download PDF link annotation
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0918cbc301085ba6c5a3035c79d8867/wiwirutibasurawakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160911e698337e---konafubujosowanewura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/72834302285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafe-malaysia.com/contents/file/84028232380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f775f6d1f8---jafogufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d4162dacde6d08932be72ff0196de1b/11065287181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/bufinujimewubesevozibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bh6d0b601tdojgdtt5qauogt0d/55593075288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/25071904056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784ab2b925a---laviniwojivizari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicscrm.com/img/files/93459028235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d78086661f05f41ddb7b571fd047b5b2/kefamilesazanabimisefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1364e1be677b182159cb2dfcab91ed08/41104619452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/va7lhtinape2igqrqk6n706fc5/tajufowomexejifefawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E4 15576 bytes
SHA-256: b48902a5834dc2564651ccc99be4b328aa5b71fbe9acaf5f875271889441c24f
font_01_sfnt_off00010b99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B99 5604 bytes
SHA-256: 688aaea21603c03ad069f96d6dd1c3b98654828f110bccbc5181f05628e69925
font_02_sfnt_off00011e7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7B 6416 bytes
SHA-256: c57173e33d60b8ceaaa61d8d04f53e2272dc3757fd900b4246ba1952df601bc0
font_03_sfnt_off00012f39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F39 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 37dc94e53f77e3e6abb0dec39afc37603bd3f12a12aa43c48ae6e1b650f614a9
font_04_sfnt_off000154e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154E5 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 436829979245b7126098886beec731c3e32f79caaa22165f5cf5bd484c81a714
font_05_sfnt_off00016d86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16D86 4856 bytes
SHA-256: f643d4618e81d0a9081d33dc601f11761cb960a022fbcfb3daecf0acc56702cc