Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20e215cf8692a35c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-08-17 00:08:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8f8122fec411eef323069257f54db36f SHA-1: 6ecf7b0c7f1db431707aa55f6d103c74e5611b85 SHA-256: 20e215cf8692a35cd0e9d528b54b17027d5193b5582f11d8c9025a55365449f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. These links likely serve to obscure the ultimate malicious destination or to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3c0f1d65c8---pikubofolubipomosadalome.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b600fbe1688---24807008394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvif.fr/userfiles/file/51774523447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/64884988359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyosushilohaus.com/uploads/files/92488325443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/guwinunotefetebolib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8u2a812psr07lasm41s7oigcm8/93152813875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtjjt.com/2013/upload/article/files/210812010824773514i50ug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/43005156315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/doginomizonusoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godahoian.com/app/webroot/upload/files/2652663648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e014a07d5---dojibuwowog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c178ed2b370---1151905904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/mijozujifejixazeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/vakexozatizigigemunetam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c6f76c5b810884808484328e548cb27/juzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161141a97c07bb---93924539337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/52544649986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f81444e5047b8174f0cbfe7423f5430e/rawapaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/48590499630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e357c126fd---20502914822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e93153182---nojiwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861228384d0---67912753414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/81809321597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computergramm.com/userfiles/file/20425919793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=barbie+dress+up+and+make+up+games+download+freePDF 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_off0000e3ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC05 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 95198bcf2939a13850b8e019d4651e1038b00b66264869a2d4ce346995a42325
font_02_sfnt_off000115e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E4 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 7faee7bbc1d0d5d498b206714c4601eba0bbd0f2b71428bac7889e740fe04406