Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20b70a373bb624d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-17 04:53:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: c3d668503701ce5553d07fa4d03d08de SHA-1: 97739d2256f28c4003dd53db8ea67ae071b0b801 SHA-256: 20b70a373bb624d1dde661a1cc7f657434448a90bf76035c0b9e07703907b5f8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on compromised websites, designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of a callback phishing lure suggests an attempt to engage users directly for fraudulent purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aeaa689586---sexujazalofufesenez.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f173a4c72---rasib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d3a8f2412a553a863051608595c69e2/33805930913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da40effeedb65250150cd73d50f302f1/tubonafamidilenitabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8de58c8e3538a1aabef66b3e03ac5ed/89743854338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d88e16f66---zoxofodatiresanuxibezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiastudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zabaros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1623475297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210703_235724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ab3a626b652561e729e46882f21ecc6/97880812415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpspcb.com/uploads/files/xegibojatubidonagalelizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r34d0mb25m8590otunl9rkter5/wuvezefivezixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfeb229664c916faa8f3dff1c2a07abe/koderuropofokoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a988018d4567ba7ce3869c4285ae042b/98616859137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/dadalikaruwotakev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_A108896D4131FEB9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788a9721d03---41264399706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/tizikuleranobuwizugiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brownewingfamily.com/clients/a/a4/a4d7a48ed280e719b438ae57db99af5e/File/34684121274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/lipogaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/59120913904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edfff9d086---58256418626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a706ede54---tafulalazabuvenanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=lymph+node+swelling+back+of+neckPDF 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_off0000e51b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE51B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD32 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 4aee47de31201ca1bc7fa07c38e9817f22184e9486c1066e4716223e65f2d02e
font_02_sfnt_off00011705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11705 16620 bytes
SHA-256: df22991a90cb64c763ca229b1b24c1d62306803ce0d1a098b1daf4a710f6b5f8