Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20f53d5c1ff1d9ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 04:34:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e0460c240fe60ffe0d181b785b5acc53 SHA-1: fe0d7068ff539573f6c8f4cc87424865cc55ed8d SHA-256: 20f53d5c1ff1d9ac69c71c060299d761f5f2821cf1884f5f5a86985709f439af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress installations and disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content, such as phishing pages or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbe8a2e5942b377abf796b7f0fa334b4/gonamasusafejofisetetad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b029a0d8d---34039755013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f96e5cc63---25073170867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ecc584e24---82470743235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd65c24df7---35872740551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a481834b949---bexuluxotufefijupoboke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ap855pf722bjvf6eea7frolds/30298691323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af7d198794de66811811967babeec334/vofetuwajupuvuworuvixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a446c6ebff0---kapuxuwojilexuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/rigiruro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c66065a118---dokuwiviwavupefife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf7d1a759e---vetajikunipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sidm1oicu715bs21lf5j52pbkj/84979318780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/33292684489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84a4fe12a10a4d94c8c45c03ab16565f/72883198392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sc28hde3l36sqal53ej612rfuk/53801091481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e600794c2---vasolikuseriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609494af83a7a---tezowuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/xejoxewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e26782e07b---gevedefetunugepupunusufiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1926ab6e68---28747700530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094aa619aa2d---wazusaputiwedokujizuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what+special+advantages+does+physical+capitalPDF 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_off0000e976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE976 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 32a212784372355a162bd4f5ac7d6c7b81092b26c151cac3d9abd91e07ef3147
font_01_sfnt_off0001025a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1025A 15812 bytes
SHA-256: a4cb35f1e21b502c0fd0429b2a7111ce30972902ffe1f3980790c5772a6514e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012aff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1