Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c20d82591885caa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

125.1 KB Created: 2021-08-21 13:26:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 38da1da8f72f20b7d60daead10eec644 SHA-1: 064c6a9b15b3d13559740f882ca40a55060af114 SHA-256: 9c20d82591885caa3a5128d4e2a09e827a87fa18ca01e6938d3fa648b10f8616
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cabae1f5df---21989036157.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hucqn6632nlkdmqu43m1k8e0pp/96161152690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021051700153774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fizesefiravebixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe1758c922---19194269817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9928baa6a41d32f44750c13c33acca5/15512648347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/35961668193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kogan-photo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7de8d1904f4ccb37387a5e912ba6c5e7/xunegexoxijisajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3955imjl3l58vebdq2hjur5fir/remewedifuzal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e62cab615---8083853920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987ba8ecbb2---wozizuronej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heuresromantiques.com/upload/files/dixabuwuvut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relocationservicesgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f87c617f3---17661882128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaandtiarasottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/87624362014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avayemehr-carpet.ir/data/file/30456380890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d37e9738b5---sovifik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a261c1dd8ba---168880902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/xujapalisoraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur0jpvm041u4na9lep1sl18geh/95722094141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/gatufokemokobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd52c2b1115---gepitijatevozavotapora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakehighlandsrw.org/clients/863582/File/xigakubalumanetejej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th7huju3pr7dafklbr05qhb8ar/64502054983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logopeda-empatia.pl/content/file/407292504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=thinking+concepts+in+psychologyPDF 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_off00018636.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18636 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 5ea354bb1fc2c62e1377eec1022b4fa3d7157d4eb05031230342150a695a3f85
font_01_sfnt_off00019e43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19E43 17940 bytes
SHA-256: 7ff00bf8ba3d3fdbbeedd86d617a17a48ac98683b933161e376b65d715732bb1
font_02_sfnt_off0001ccd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CCD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1