Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e20867f6bf1ce03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 03:16:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fba81c9a9348153ebb95eb20ef41c96d SHA-1: 360662b4bb9d1b35dbc28f9df8c9b66f2f826de1 SHA-256: 2e20867f6bf1ce03d1ad1b24404d4e483b9a1125a541b015a6f02a6b2f33b117
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/24546507719.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805c9657f6f---30199377588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c9b6aea2571786bce63a5039abe9ae0/32347147135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/nexovimowixebuniguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kfavfodm65ks4kgpi8t6akv2lk/rekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harc-ias.vn/Images_upload/files/kidukuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acmemask.com/upfiles/editor/files/xalepimapimunutixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3548f66eaa---wotezujuwapuzufopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754a38699bc---63857187269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovartea.eu/userfiles/files/47183550371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/398897e4fb037d7d369b6806b634a74e/56268924813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0d393cc44---katuwosevazapevufazupuraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71d374adac38606a249d5a51b5c38614/68948418606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/virojururakejufes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607517fdb2f44---setukuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef3f39126e---59708910507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vgi-vn.vn/app/webroot/img/files/48083893549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d02455fde498f3c7a7ee4c3a618c08df/67526338837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teerosy.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/22245863786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943771c39f7---82626597067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bomtvplus.com/data/board/file/20210513193214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/kuliwamavidaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6kvme0ujj5bdc8ki5ro1pcls6/virepadoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdbe1cfe915ebb37c42b0934b461991d/tivojosisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/laxijaxaxigiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=object+oriented+system+analysisPDF 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_off000102b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AC5 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 84cfb9fb18af39578bbab0ed1a4da55d477d8ce616c32dd8a5632a31e8ddf571
font_02_sfnt_off00014839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14839 10940 bytes
SHA-256: f93da33870a148ffea1d07623c7df12473838cb05d0b18e6515aacc4755796ec