Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20d055efc5060da6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 03:34:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 02941d78e319ba01f752d7972ef762bc SHA-1: ac5395abf5f564f22ad3ed9fb6311e078c9332dc SHA-256: 20d055efc5060da616e81efc62d80562029e73f009850917fdca7c7acb268195
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of link farms hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically phishing. The presence of external URI heuristics and the nature of the URLs suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kingroot+beta+apk
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/lekolajateto.pdf
    • http://senvietsystem.com/ckeditor/upload/files/43427695822.pdf
    • https://rmduncanrealty.com/userfiles/files/60613637135.pdf
    • http://kimhoatra.com/upload/fckimagesfile/bafemo.pdf
    • https://makojudo.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/40270469846.pdf
    • http://erpos.sk/data/files/57103657241.pdf
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///74687695386.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kfonuf1cahfbsb0qc5f19dcsaj/nunuwadepizaxadituluvas.pdf
    • https://afma.pt/site/upload/file/kusenu.pdf
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a13b2fc4a67ac6a1f8fd6807a0ba4b8/46650341689.pdf
    • https://aynadakikemalizm.com/resimler/files/vazimewo.pdf
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384624bcfb0---47324222707.pdf
    • http://infinijewelry.com/userfiles/file/43420969826.pdf
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d3af0ad82---79305500230.pdf
    • http://vitalbafitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/xanavojudibakawezipima.pdf
    • http://khunghinhdepphuctin.com/media/ftp/file/3476914906.pdf
    • https://lockerova.eu/admin/upload/documents/84169622310.pdf
    • http://kunjipsc.com/uploads/files/redofebe.pdf
    • http://fqcycpa.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210904191505.pdf
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rofonopofowamar.pdf
    • http://96stone.ru/userfiles/file/23397820736.pdf
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/55873686400.pdf
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.fr/Sites/cds/files/paruzis.pdf
    • http://fructusartis.com/i/File/luzolizok.pdf
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/36749452191.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da1b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA1B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f232.bin
38a118b7562a0196c46de5009944f3499d35a129e09607b8f820b9c133b88c99
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF232 10436 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000109c1.bin
20e12cdbdefce615966b5e1e9598c29578b04957e0b720d3042317318edde6ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C1 16984 bytes