Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20cd486286578d9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 02:44:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ccb52a8511199fb54b2ab5c083b01b80 SHA-1: d89331350c8285b04e83a6113b196f019e2e9c6a SHA-256: 20cd486286578d9ab947aa3b6eb605bdd90c1b49c136bdbcc93325ae70dee5f8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable domains, likely to facilitate a download. The presence of a 'Download Now' lure further supports this phishing-like attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://k3projekt.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/kefetitugafosuxapukom.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lazdynumokykla.lt/userfiles/file/95563021732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0deb547a9ac3f107f1e3687065dc3446/sepadoxida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nujuvasanizurixaxunuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137aa136677c---lamupubevukubasikalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooam.com/files/fckeditor/file/393815585613b78acc39d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionnutritech.com/upload/files/24517023837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promenade-perpignan.com/userfiles/file/65129061940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c2ed5120f---mobikamanalaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yapluka-services.fr/userfiles/file/fubevujuxojaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bpvrc4ol7hu5ct0hl2ce8im20u/8897040394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptwash.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/65203211727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2446665a.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/denakudonibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://u15.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/webubokufage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86937986451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovituruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16988172146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2bircruise.travflex.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/3804299660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.instalacionescueto.com/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29225600046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnigakgdsg.friendship-match.com/upload/files/77670284328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/lukajolupepebusalowufeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f38fcc061---66141275898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/roxibelikulebowibesox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138287b9dbfa---gufokufugategisupopujomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latgalesamatnieki.lv/files/file/65321605950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curvy.tw/upload/files/suvaxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/guxoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=fifa+13+mobile+androidPDF 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_off0000d2fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2FE 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 12ca35adb0fdbfd8b6a46078c7282ee24237e39b38bac5c13cdf8b28532b6f05
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001032e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032E 17404 bytes
SHA-256: 87687a125b8ff604633ca69e77709d7ca72ded690b5fa0343dc8c38a444b50a0