Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a20c85e7a63f663e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-08-15 13:57:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 02915f8eccd6105b671d2161ca6bdfab SHA-1: d8f909c23fd7f8efa7c90dc5a5e14ac2b27fe1e8 SHA-256: a20c85e7a63f663ee84571bb9ef236d7327ecf77fd2ed016a05f90a4b0ccf6cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV both flagged this PDF as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/rusujujopubejomaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/tikajurejurudotelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0724cf8d255b088bf592b3da9ac050dd/67262864609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0p3dvj8c4u63guuer8jv39pf4/17389002960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosimonepantaleo.it/userfiles/files/xixilejemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e02bee25bc0f84da7bfbf4d4ec4f3d7/97317266469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7fb9ddea157dfd5ed2eef35119f6a1e/27292671343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/91774635845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/95933621747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d62e90f354b---86566465733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18f0599a9436d733629de0eb1fac1615/74477922053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eefe786907---6709559529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3fcc181d22---lijib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tingchucontrol.com/Uploadfiles/files/78478705157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbff-bygg.se/img/files/kilokora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b204fe70eac---4316025636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaku3c.tw/uploads/files/202108141110254467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4eef54cc8b898f77ccde6bd62baa2a69/wawidinemotetigapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aef8faa15a3---55226112033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad6ce6281e0---xutisewanozomusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://area100impianti.it/userfiles/files/30730821150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanresearch.com/userfiles/files/41023040666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161186c0430e71---fuwimenusovadiferujof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766f9f1a2ab---4010326384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+your+own+fnaf+modelPDF 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_off00011a1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A1E 17932 bytes
SHA-256: c128f52bfec783596a9a00863c2927c21f924450808c48fbd02af5ca56f089cd
font_01_sfnt_off0001496a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1496A 10636 bytes
SHA-256: c1452b551ee63f1d3c083eb89550d841cc021eeca64d6ecc5e57ac02b51149d8
font_02_sfnt_off000161c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1