Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20f22a6fc245194d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:29:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c2f7aa4eed4111a43975204c23e23e8f SHA-1: 51178d079d37c968c6d01af3c3685ce0e0bdaf12 SHA-256: 20f22a6fc245194dc4e6050886deab1676861dff309303cade5689f67973d6ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO poisoning to lure users to malicious content. The file itself is a link farm, leveraging compromised CMS uploads to host or link to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/klbb9rmr0qr2q0gmht27peei9g/29169683138.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202105/file/1622299320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/weraxoxiwamabukijubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/defepugetowewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6be9d7f744---sutematimewizunimesixato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/33946641459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0e86ca720---98910409022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/lugigemonuxujitaxowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akssert.com/userfiles/files/5643535519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a504b405559---1926850983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/dubuziwijalubaberu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f00f25035f---30740098348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe115c2b8dce960777062a6660b4d842/tidunizonivenir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b87d87e077---geselojutanawizema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd2f0afa73---renerun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/notitusosuxifoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9c62ec776---20920835250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/chb5gssii06j739mtc69aolq2h/kawixibivuwepat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafemsoffice.com/userfiles/files/82139409571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9cfd85550d---kufetuzutusutaxuguvesugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93d142075a09c7cfb42a14a8be984f83/1398313316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/toxinuwudoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/201ae99a9d8922a7717a47bd71487367/90757458292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb2c797a38---gugerunerujopadewetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=mx+900+software+downloadPDF 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_off000122d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D8 16836 bytes
SHA-256: 3062c5cf8f702a11813f5bb0622afd165ab277357638ed4453192a435d64fe3f
font_01_sfnt_off00014ea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000166be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166BE 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 64ca5cb3d177f662a4f890c23942f9d9634e8bf59c9e6e468c17361e6cc9c7a0