Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b20908ac58f14aab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 07:29:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b7aaaa0e4933d132eed7ba5ffda9dcda SHA-1: 8e06b756c31bf0d15a70376a9b8273d2b56e1a8d SHA-256: b20908ac58f14aabe5bfc1cccfb8c5b3b759a1a1f01fe06c55489272e90d4dd3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content hosted on these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+a+side+of+a+right+triangle+with+an+angle+and+a+side PDF link annotation
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a235aff14---ditududitobaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/91714524144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoetryworld.com/clients/53741/File/73379595330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazuma.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puloke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurmateng.com/contents//files/95553015394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a522a1e7971---pinopegejawagisov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/10346877153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/21974360930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089cd869ede2---kakoloripibekinanemes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kcequipment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ded87e441d37eb4445ee086d14436cd7/magamazobebubitojufimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8dd679b9d1c051736e14cbd30851e8c/67487881303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/80976758480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086963f90d0f---bazarinemofatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/64197006138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/15274762525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d294b4e156---nusuzulipikudegapamokenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9687c1b24158fa8b600665cbf644f1ab/48962801007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv20ma5q0mejo7ie5lgklit6m5/nolenuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/pabibuxuwusomoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/23630471615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb6d55d9b6---96439816485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/26907781905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa073b00aa676f321d71a634a4383e1a/17876398298.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_off0000e51a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE51A 17556 bytes
SHA-256: 306333141a59c34c83a77ddcfcb6e5fff8429e1804b98897b202531f3c84f9a2
font_01_sfnt_off000112e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E7 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 0f4c2f966eb857874d0e843ce97232198b37968f9615bd9cedf999ed9f4a323d
font_02_sfnt_off00012b30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B30 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1