Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f20a50b00699009…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:27:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0b45e58223b878504773ddddffd882b3 SHA-1: cad1bb51633950689b2639bf8b967725ac254fa9 SHA-256: 8f20a50b0069900935d264b7560a44df8d7af7e28dd96d84f841263a8aeccf6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/nufukof.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qtd26oqmg1hcbfvivosl6lnao1/jevaxapanelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongphuctqueen.com/upload/files/jamemaruxalexezarafulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/kekito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/1951218711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca0e2bde36c---fedopudufaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/75189971892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/od8pcomavpjub3aaumbdvn5na6/97850148719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/japuzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ds78t4udcehj4jd6pgjgacbif7/96581729628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubmaniacr.com/campannas/file/3981380433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84h9cvqninfm9vj1i9v7c3i6v6/18513292631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myveolife.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af0b51f2ecde33d92dbd6bb0ca142ac5/katowijinavejotiwekat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/52218298071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r25lnnme940g696t4ig32v7tj3/91512893117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iuoj5slfv4m9jekic6mmobbss1/29436532075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0ftefiid1hmufebquq71sur64/21307407430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfc6464265fd9c0c1cdc974bd01879bb/4036153966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe5c206815---70678634640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cffa7f4282a4b2761d312b355186cf60/4854420308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37r6bh0nmtilfl7lketudh1fvg/91651547380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebf528c81a---vonejosakizatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d302e3745b438d5510bfa96ab251092e/95681555587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/lebonibuxape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=non+directional+hypothesis+definitionPDF 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_off0000e52b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE52B 16616 bytes
SHA-256: 174c0b6436f7e1e044523281405545f0bc8a5ddeb3c523cd587ba3d9baae0b3a
font_01_sfnt_off0001105a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1105A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012871.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12871 10808 bytes
SHA-256: a25754feee6b6e9f6078cb6376b0c3de70a7c7059230bed78aeac8d6644e3229