Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20d49d819d14bec4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 10:36:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 847a4bc6045924eba7d7027b7e54c859 SHA-1: 6cf47deba36e2144b01798b95af0069eae0940fb SHA-256: 20d49d819d14bec4816b34f689c31e06fc2a1259276c3d33a3b97d5e3c234772
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning model indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of JavaScript indicates an attempt to execute code, likely to facilitate further exploitation or download additional payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://miyagi.chi-kara.net/Upload/files/45874408325.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://soeurs-scjboran.fr/soeurs/upload/files/wakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/63408706593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvu12h.net/userfiles/file/zesarerilujatijuvenigow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/gatovabixatokilax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bankkrtya-41a.hu/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46277852400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/44538063035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e35fd7ad44---kelisisodebudiraduge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/16372509717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://custom-mugs-factory.com/uploadfile/files/57237254013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/ninulepewaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613670614fce4---971595567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogift-it.com/userfiles/files/40882907914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///49350338382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/rirexixinejemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skidubravy.sk/spravca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/widogotelebumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamishehbaharcarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/vuwakidosugevolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jaaukpedbh2tvlr1fvk8j3latj/rofobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413a77b9d1a---51382905186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sf99ec6r7eck13688spm9v156e/zakuvilaxozaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contact-house.com/fckeditor/upload/file/34115537731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f80c617425c29e4fa2e5486857e8d4bd/97533143321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/zuvigivobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=reface+app+modPDF 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_off0000cb3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE353 10216 bytes
SHA-256: c37b9070183c000b1cadf9cc13ed04b3f0c4151cc3338297878a693dbfdb532b
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3C 17988 bytes
SHA-256: b96e90078128321b764e5e5e90bef12e1fbf451407d5be1d57db7215e828de8e