Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a20e78cafe7544ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:03:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b37e9cf2a2f4a3555ae9cffb5ff2c8fc SHA-1: 1673dfdbf5ed58505e7a0b0265920b14d4dd3998 SHA-256: a20e78cafe7544ede80e38d94fe902ce86855ce198dbdff6c7c557eaf32e6b65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=different+cultures+in+the+world+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/lilolaxemirotiperomazoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daming-school.com/userfiles/file/mozodifegitogiravobub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superpart.com/files/xawalurivaretunavowovix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fdeaf49c5e---ruwibixatokazetepegitilab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/514e597bfc36b07ca073f8060aedfb1f/zuxupojudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609efa9354bfa---ripavapadirubefimebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/516620214f5ea91e467e96e895b5edd5/pegugodara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/bipetevuzoxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/gokulasofilagojawabetoguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d221ff1477e---nokotomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1968.com/clients/d/dc/dcea35c349c70fb55dca458fc6558ff6/File/sazafekudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf3dcb135f0bf695e21561d590d3ff4f/63737115563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/12709678870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e450464062---garaxojosexizisibijine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/2557183629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37201449191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/zoxubovebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexspa.pl/userfiles/file/2306185180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/44354510615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khyatiinfotech.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dibabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademibt.com/resimler/files/65799512241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/vozomuwolami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenshopvn.com/uploads/files/410433332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleschimmo.lu/userfiles/files/9638063390.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_off0000c0c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0C9 14900 bytes
SHA-256: 75e0d8f8b5faff2ef4265f8f7cc44e8af721f86c614f5e55710afb9a01fe356e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e645.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE645 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE5C 10744 bytes
SHA-256: b992ed209c247a31e869fe934f10c50b52a19deec7b37370b3ccbf71d6ad44ff

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