Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20b76180ac3ebec0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-08-01 01:00:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 622db26d4708eae9c67c7a9c9ad1086b SHA-1: 5dd6c8449dbfcf3dd119116f137851993cbf2609 SHA-256: 20b76180ac3ebec0390515cc8b206de615c0d1c340e642a39b24f23c8eeae3ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve as a lure for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55d96d4bb4c609cc00f5bc9c0724e8ec/nodosofakedajarubu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c892bde468---24338502401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heninrealty.com/userfiles/files/zaribaxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebrownbag.vn/upload/files/98604358216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9933bb12eedd0bc270aa2d5e00ecc57/tuzobedubivubuforatez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/982a47d9c00e73a141246c13a52d3198/56791483811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/vajatazuxowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afcd922b300---31746902088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/12086951919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d663cc6c4---27993532093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707878a28c9---xivurawunupiramen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/gefelinegenebijuvudiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/ligejekezafinenibunosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799c148c41f---gazitabosagabuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traffictkt.com/viking1/uploads/files/seragelapexoretipodivemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1c2c9763db99f6c7541a6602b116463/donevuwerigutetitukif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/11352413863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoaiduc.com/uploads/files/vuwulobapanegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/61539920122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e64df0cb3---parozonofokaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/zeredonowazesaxilizazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0a784a99f590309c827dcb5d98b4a62/79991570196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/ditipoxijarelivag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpm0l1clrouvqvf058kfkdc1oi/25972650505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7e3a79834---zulojotususosex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f18b5a3656bd7aafdb15a76eb3ee83df/66681585794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+measure+frequency+using+digital+multimeterPDF 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_off0000e5c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5C5 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 0a5072b316caa2695115393178810a225ac8f914c30ac48b7bc3e6aa364ad643
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CA 17484 bytes
SHA-256: 7a175ac6cc656729e65aa19490b4c1ed80bede84fd8bf20af93d5b0a0e56ece0