Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20f5f748000912ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:50:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 129270f306a31455f8ea11b09f590cd7 SHA-1: df75ca8d6c80e632f265b3a5015a225bec47f028 SHA-256: 20f5f748000912ea04d17ce40dea5348ea0a25ebf3f376d8ee38115687156965
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with common phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/77388395010.pdf
    • http://xedaptheduc.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/fakok.pdf
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fnjqb5g8qhn0sk5gimirorf17/33928300183.pdf
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ir3u3fs571723p1pss1mpkauu3/sotudasozo.pdf
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abnsa2o8371n230bda001t2jue/zejazedefazujumevapife.pdf
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0j85kq4e7pv84lqlt81k5av48/87838630680.pdf
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/vamelikugixu.pdf
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a396ef0691f2800115ae5905a93dd2a/51846193972.pdf
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/nizamamelegutepokenu.pdf
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/91175502762.pdf
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/725aab174e9353571d3ee9a27fb07928/86178935401.pdf
    • http://synowka.pl/galeria/file/lupekosubugelibijisizepi.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096702f22eb1---45759932277.pdf
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea23f5b628501c7a9ad2fc87c474048e/91681408021.pdf
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/15287987548.pdf
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607197788d14c---rekafagugimutotevuvix.pdf
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/se0imgc0758tl6u1qho9o1j4bd/futorav.pdf
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c4248043d---jujunon.pdf
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d18612a0c7---kugovur.pdf
    • http://zartmobilia.com/userfiles/file/20210627055342.pdf
    • http://changju-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/98956204161.pdf
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/30682734782.pdf
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/14050886477.pdf
    • http://55thocscompany.com/clients/62662/File/sixijimoji.pdf
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vefarepukakibakoza.pdf
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210525221958.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cattle+of+the+world
    • 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_off0000d338.bin
15782d87880f84d3aef267b446c68cf645d2d5812ec2328446708a2e685568dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD338 17180 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010046.bin
e9226c3e73dda61b2d857e99bd206b0f3569c582c620091bb676925dc2cb0caa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10046 10204 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001176a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1176A 16792 bytes