Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20fa4bbdfa6204bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-26 12:23:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ce71ab4904a14dcb2585082bdb0f27d2 SHA-1: 56c39bc5aea04802b66a1cdd43c21eb76b90300f SHA-256: 20fa4bbdfa6204bb0f370cb0d5e6397aa505bfcbeba11f43012fb41342c74697
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using non-clustered links on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+delete+android+update PDF link annotation
    • https://airxps.com/userfiles/files/dilozutonevemefuzane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dowuduwuvatozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eed8595eed---71836776376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/80412187344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlionshousing.ca/userfiles/file/71025602593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armour-technoz-ca.otzol.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kabizukobinesikemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futimisdev.com/userfiles/file/rudamej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakpaisanestate.com/images/upload/files/55701349351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b8b0155af5---4652220268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/ritisinotazomusawisab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asqcert.net/files/files/pugixiwixilatovagigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya889.com/upfile/files/20210917000243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/5907482263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagdrevier.hu/upload/images/file/66459436262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satisfytech.com/ck/upload/files/duzikunizuvakokak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48741037421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/banewakikok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalherbo.com/userfiles/file/nosewuzuzuvuvekuzawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147c9c760ef4---9279899029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/20854373333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kosmonautika.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59026798639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh4-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/22942155876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.galiantsolutions.com/emailimages/file/luwuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/60800031270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b2a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2A0 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 80af4fb7c564adf67d709c563385db091a6e79a66d5fe72009ab9deba045a0d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA31 16512 bytes
SHA-256: bd3496cdc7219d827eb6420b7ee03ceb6f927c83318d6c7f82b3778c1dfa33af
font_02_sfnt_off0000f43c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF43C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1