Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20d95eabb82bad61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-10-06 20:45:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 9a6ca4505b91387d8cfd9f81d94b2e72 SHA-1: 6f83b0d991501730f31ef84820cb96b3ce49c550 SHA-256: 20d95eabb82bad6137959f6e462fdc89a5eb68f639249c4f838198c77506003b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. Several heuristics indicate the presence of link farms and compromised upload storage, suggesting an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious, sites. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

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://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/bubijitaxununelunipaze.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dozitesoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/wajabesepejufivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khonggianmang.com/upload/files/fokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imbirimbir.ru/files/88803408537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/9133650795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6ef1e247e3bd2a2eb189053dfdf637f/72098305613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya889.com/upfile/files/20210905091411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangnhadat.com/uploads/files/lewowujij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615c26bb1e028---tumifarudixibabaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161457e537b1ca---66701407791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ocptecnology.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/xinuwumugowazaturam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozmutludokum.com/userfiles/file/92642858920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8afe1d69c0b25ed225453bce7d54ce9a/bimurirov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2b3la571ga-70p.com/contents/files/zetajalavogunekanikamaxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biirbeh.mn/images/content/file/41746320853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/65064647139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.training/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/51094838140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://docando.es/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81119436366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90503975817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeywithmypet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekijufisafozutefuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaynhe.com/upload/files/jevuvisoxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malerbetrieb-malanders.de/Webseite/pics/fotos/1/file/rosajedejisur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progetec.org/userfiles/files/92671803113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what+do+we+call+a+group+of+flowersPDF 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_off0000cc3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC3D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e454.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE454 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 454a6dad7ca331e7a527a72fd5f7906e0a38e553adae88b758e3b889ad8695ce
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD82 18076 bytes
SHA-256: 3e29322fc1f1d2d7888d007fd88b48aacc8ef1c41d91d9ac9431d025e97b3010