Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 920cc82d1668a7d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 16:51:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9dd57930c967c327eb3fcc7f34ab1e64 SHA-1: 97c6bdb66f30e401c19a5af6892f504150fcff0a SHA-256: 920cc82d1668a7d71f2a7d45598301ef602f3d2c582c55a87eafea753461d4c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files or redirect users to phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kaiyethum+doorathu+malayalam+mp3+songs+download PDF link annotation
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7brkdse2aaotb81dqfsjnjetf/68152690380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texinpack.com/uploadfile/file///2021090601523892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/37566528272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southafricapools.com/contents/files/42078715913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/70009686163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0948053001630826316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandravanshi.com/userfiles/file/77920556316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/nuvorajolatolisajufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/kupifaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consorzio-csa.it/userfiles/files/kefuwiwovenakorebinewus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ltpbetel.ro/userfiles/file/dutabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emtracing.net/userfiles/file/381891194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbeaindia.com/userfiles/file/66784656485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buzivodamosawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icaalliance.org/filespath/files/20210902071550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161323546a3f53---41186345245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemtron-vostok.ru/media/file/26577186068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b193acc0a1a74eba9de040ad1ccc809/kurelufiwudasodewagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e793d145e---xofitelaruvepere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c3d52c778---58909103858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/guzetefasevosafukim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcot.org/userfiles/file/4187808179.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_off0000b653.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB653 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE65 15684 bytes
SHA-256: cc8d3a7b44320bc4b8c4d82ff1b270a9b37dd002146cf87cd7a08c6eaf54a9bf
font_02_sfnt_off0000f69b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69B 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 8d4747fef62a92e239f0b85b55d21b11556789128d831f91747c902696d00218