Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20e88c100e396ddb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 17:10:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fa1729810d3e367491c8f6221ce33bd7 SHA-1: f68292e68d63eec9641bea2ca690035962b978a4 SHA-256: 20e88c100e396ddbc7611eedacbd580272f22b7efdf59a0106631f5666cc041f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9903

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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 http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12068phph1v2ildfd2rhuk2hv3/52599916230.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba791af9b2---84440795030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ek5hutfsfj0alal1rpbv752vsh/zusuzefolegikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60758b34c8c68c0557864dd2b6dd9bba/zixiserirudoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/xupukebinuguwafadami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womenwhorockarkansas.com/clients/4/4c/4cfcdabbb7b8ad81bafe9a4295858145/File/81352189526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92b281da73eb7f71e52ec1312876422b/80638615512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e7dbfe78d42b4dc218e453eb5652b1c/konasala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833cfee8113---vemofividepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/pumoxezetarorexufusef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079169abcd18---38495573478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/60224608121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/80583328394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/zunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9478529399e4dbcc727ab39da6419c21/julepexepugojeraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c335d475f---45550561682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/en006ah8d5smdcpmc0df244ht0/73408517642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/948526cbdea28a79c8682c8377a72c3d/teburepabolomenanara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/10907786749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ps1g3m6nv0shlkaidkfppflb9m/61113518078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doublehappyvstheinfinitesadness.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e2bcd34a9---99896331296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/70152649907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filatelianumismaticaumbra.it/userfiles/file/99971894907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=petechiae+and+high+blood+pressurePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10062 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11879 11032 bytes
SHA-256: fa80a79b178c7d2ade2b8b11bcf44a7bd25fbae32eef7d3d5e7a8868f8b0384c
font_02_sfnt_off0001319f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1319F 17388 bytes
SHA-256: aa589a3ed05d951599d06e093d935772f9e87e67a8352abccba89c2a1accad9c
font_03_sfnt_off00015ed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15ED8 16164 bytes
SHA-256: fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467