Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20f3d444129b55fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 11:46:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 09675bd1b9707c2a610361a00f7cd0e8 SHA-1: db0d8b81bf47d07fc781d5cf0b2f8e6590e80eda SHA-256: 20f3d444129b55fc65e8c4947b6babdba6ff7a829e6de47bcb0412ee4e37e113
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm, with many URLs hosted on potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports this, aiming to trick users into interacting with the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+root+rmx2195
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d2096c73e7---30692888765.pdf
    • http://ecme.site/2015/vat/upload/files/fanud.pdf
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371e3504e51---97669218708.pdf
    • https://sledovani.gpshlidac.cz/www/userfiles/files/gunob.pdf
    • https://wic-net.com/userfiles/file/gusipamizoj.pdf
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/pigikopuvos.pdf
    • http://karinameal.com/imgdish/files/58692635148.pdf
    • http://clevio.biz/fckUpload/file/zonofomaborigu.pdf
    • http://habitat3.eu/userfiles/files/jagazoxovafutu.pdf
    • https://bvphcn.bdata.vn/upload/files/59581545816.pdf
    • https://www.cifphosteleriayturismo.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xerimutaboxud.pdf
    • https://fuoriscena.eu/file/87081883042.pdf
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dilawalakodumeluxinewabek.pdf
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/pezugasuxekurigizoxi.pdf
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/11314002684.pdf
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/49483414724.pdf
    • http://web5gstore.com/Files/files/46078437660.pdf
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614404ea1d47d---nowususozeseluvofik.pdf
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/35728427956.pdf
    • http://lamardaegu.com/upfile/user/file/79939897132.pdf
    • http://asremajazi.com/uploads/files/84363869177.pdf
    • http://insuralead.com/userfiles/file/33911127876.pdf
    • http://emanuelmlevin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/89866646243.pdf
    • http://getdol.com/page_data/file/64289999632.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5e5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5E5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000edf7.bin
a911922c7f66177e9faca2f01c0b1e016c064b3aa0afc91a8b46774d1bd4c276
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDF7 17180 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a8b.bin
8c60824cec62980c763d8672ecee56ed421ea5ade79363227706bae91f702ad0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A8B 10216 bytes