Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 920e27b0c6a868a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-05-26 09:43:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9f98f2754fb614fd0f9d63f6ffeeacde SHA-1: 56b0cc5fc57c4e7a576af137b09f9e279b886d10 SHA-256: 920e27b0c6a868a283d7a060dcba45c3f03e75db4e236456d70c5ab3a3c493f7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious files. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the presence of multiple distinct hosts hosting PDF files indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file, likely serving as a lure for downloading unwanted applications.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083bb969b344---72938760946.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jsnrkm0v55agmr6rpu3u2q335r/73318526715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5908c55ce574d81e2bbf8aed10a82871/gosiwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b7ff6f228c5a8d9e9a6de11acbacea1/19400999884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gmp9c735b5vctdkt9m9qr21a1d/39402620523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945598c011a---89282546730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db65ec1616---sitosifiwijuxuleloro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaef5735b77---vonoguseredukeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/22298259872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sewakendragroup.com/userfiles/file/44228288384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836ef6f3d87---82408278292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b22115ac1e5bee77e98d09aa736b856/weratasonibomib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e646a4965d---debut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d253ba0f3a---fuduvenijagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc052ad138---93858988716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=installer+une+application+android+sur+iphonePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e19e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE19E 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 2b2fe2dd9712ec6a1af19c67acfb43481031038de186e650a27bd97c99315e1a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E0 1800 bytes
SHA-256: 51ebeec29509b87aa858d500e37ac8853184703d07d1f913ce36d8e1dc7764c0
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB6E 12912 bytes
SHA-256: 462d951ac6785ed455783d9b94f5cc7514cdc7f0b497ff1d3b899643042292a1
font_03_sfnt_off000124db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124DB 16312 bytes
SHA-256: bf8f9ece8d9d74ce2d7a98a07ee1bb8f4056faf702b3b1702118181e85f1b939