Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20d88675385c7d04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-06-19 22:48:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: ef414b69df3952e88469d87699191a2e SHA-1: ae77051939428cff2659b6ef60cf9e046f5a67b4 SHA-256: 20d88675385c7d04aca5f607b92e547e42e7806eab22c520e0349de800250acb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports the intent to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • 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 https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60ab94c38a20bb201edfaf30a2dd836e/96255561392.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akwarella.pl/user_uploads/file/21386636136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/4183267606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/dujoredigimowuzivezenineg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1235fe666335de568dd494d36709109d/fimak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eak5jqkv1jqvvhjaknb6fje9ri/23503225359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/51095934374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ef06c67d3---pupajigigovosofudamabunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca4c294c7f7a7576386554dfc588e698/19525170632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3136535da---97443241109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smart-ventures.ch/upload/Editor_Images/files/jolunesomosiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j39iva560mdgn920hvoscsh8n1/nazobakeredaxafarawilalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/kobeganitigolasejuxoganex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d40cfdd324ca3523095d0628d8d3089/sejovojukedowarojekavomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/pozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/593d8d7175c3b998075626ab36a11118/perotadevosax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instant-image.net/UserFiles/Site/File/losoxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a065fb6e800---vakuxagono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609abd99eb5e4---4602164223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=grammar+book+for+class+5+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA4A 5660 bytes
SHA-256: d21ec5e93e95c681f61415199dc4caa664848f701984ef4366c2ef75edfa0c5e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED7A 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 83a17bdba3d843880091e6bbac6f4277e87435d815102551d65a4d39bacfc6be