Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20b8599ed04394de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-08-08 18:10:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 4c7ba5e0211b603f4486d8297880d93b SHA-1: 9cc144c4e379182625962941a2ca3d58f08994f1 SHA-256: 20b8599ed04394de9fb828fd8ee6c0cdd0f1941b0afe9f3d33ed252c955c081e
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 0.9989

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 http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ninalafumivi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728317b3bd9---46516759716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b7e808488---45190732034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607453ea8e550---wuduninetafisatibor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c59199fcf98c31a976837b040b5b7e17/86581759577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarekhoob.ir/basefile/safarekhoobir/files/59377304033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/10326706745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuxibawuzekalalukaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/95910503084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/61293330006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/sepobukopedoderigakasunuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/debuwitunugegare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/95782585957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d38dac2eba66ded2e760534e4727b165/66063628712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0b9381f95---99052936034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faade-mtal-p6a3a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67269003794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59c0e744cd---lirovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-kc.net/scauserfiles/files/7962809080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a440869605d---27533377356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e15c0ab2f7f3b7b21e0d015c1cd32112/menixuwobiridewize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aak4hjhs0nklp315p6rj868hbg/bovekosotojal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs71.com/clients/c/c9/c97ff408e01126d63256cf68004d6641/File/kutasadosubewilasaxotigaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logistiekverbeteren.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60560391649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95f5b000fc---60318081741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+some+examples+of+imagery+in+the+cask+of+amontilladoPDF 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_off00010295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10295 11368 bytes
SHA-256: 9c32552853693f951159e3edbf70263ca18e279ceb3858587c343adb8948dd2f
font_01_sfnt_off00011d08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D08 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 640b889a5644236ed66729bd0ba6ad7072b8493f3c0c214b32ed491b3335f41f
font_02_sfnt_off000148e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1