Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20e49fb9794743f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-08-20 16:06:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ef9158c67eb56d80fc36786854e3d8cf SHA-1: 65ded33e374952729ed1d71938ed27c17357c925 SHA-256: 20e49fb9794743f5186293799b45f371f5d4c3c4cd30237961f82dc3fdcdf06e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it is designed to lead users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://udruga-invalida.hr/files/3185332054.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oiseau-bleu-morzine.com/userfiles/file/mijeraxiwisegerebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88b35be7615bfb8cc9bcdcf4fd69ee12/teted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unibel.pl/pliki/upload/file/45846593329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medizator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97664119808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a301fc0640776a102ad329335130679/sobuxike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3802718324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/58181234419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sassyissy.com/survey/userfiles/files/14927361487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lor-rostov.su/userfiles/files/91756176962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tischtennis-kiel.de/images/file/86582309644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd4472153b---13264531570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/12267515974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greer2001.com/clients/e/ea/ea56749d84c1a2d7db36d2c51c833a37/File/60719669362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/babakonivavuzuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eec6f7da6efe439f14e46613e6faed75/7571339416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altinhediyeler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/7261210614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/69108567736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/tajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paraglider24.de/pics/fotos/1/file/87960723903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4akhsud8qpcqmh7qge8n2b6937/fatativowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users//file/defofajumebazaxapudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/757673c963da0c2f0d9b4a9712ae7ee1/tamara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aeed0e7b97---40242173482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epu9atuevjo122837hl3bhpmo0/ribasovutuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what+happened+to+the+ten+percent+planPDF 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_off0001015b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1015B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11972 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 4aacbb985e10844e68a2996a80c1bb2ab3fd853cf077382e96e840c8ee9be8c8
font_02_sfnt_off000130b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130B9 17760 bytes
SHA-256: e4f5028e4992c3c4a1e454132bd4ca3f8f77b6544846f207f68eaf03ce7ce720