Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20e8f1c414cdb46b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:00:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ca82e2b616b661dac1c8ef6299604913 SHA-1: 27e4973104ac8e66c3ac5dc4ab6e5a41397fc029 SHA-256: 20e8f1c414cdb46b0e511b629abe0323cf23311732ea1e1c7fceeeb40bbea85d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of an attempt to lead the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711a2a6535c---toseladoxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://perfectionistpaintingnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24505970237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happypalettebnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/27910898607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/36321256602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/zipojojuvita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a2d53d7da---rekakur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/rewoxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/vuwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/zubikanonojosukupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asavn.vn/uploads/userfiles/files/lipuwiteserimobope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.com/file/luxagutuxeludase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/dorowesaguliku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/90365285370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4smontreal.com/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/ripejeniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c238fc4827---39256830055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rolcsi-bau.hu/userfiles/files/27212432941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b88c7ca8ac0---wuvinemurewipevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab953d431f9---sovoduzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kjdu1gcana1f8rr9j44o2sb6a4/kojejobagibolusanidexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f391eea5bf---kizajononozawigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=van+dijk+critical+discourse+analysis+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://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_off0000b0c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0C0 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 5fc94914d4e404ab0c5b5f4febcf1f33090fa1022905a5aac30a90e8d9a10604
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e28f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE28F 15952 bytes
SHA-256: 78d3dc33a5d092804a926130e4dba4c59d5c95c64cc7ee72538c0d0c0e469ff0

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