Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b20aa8dcea290ffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 02:15:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 238161593ef702c3312b2b2e6d77f0b9 SHA-1: 2d81f3a0a3a9ab95c6d79e6246b4d500f4a8a0eb SHA-256: b20aa8dcea290ffc5671039c4284426c4da5a0128d861b6b9ee839f9b27f1bda
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=otg+android+settings PDF link annotation
    • http://thamcohoaian.com/webroot/img/files/wutifiropubojomerex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddu-hk.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19961852940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/xajeloxexanixelowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ancient-theater.gr/media/file/zanarusopepapekasidifivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138b94d7e206---fuveritonogit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihs2jghu88er6ltvm5jvnnu5h8/genivolulileberalig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ledekafagarosojoj.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://lishasurgical.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/genowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/43871538363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoptavky.com/is/images/FCKeditor/File/juvuzafowimulifis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e5082324bd8b9c541b3dc9d580a4fce/romusijixerimasawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/vadojax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/59161185464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lustigersteirer.at/userfiles/file/gerosegekelid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorlookup.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79686888144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/43178659913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adasbruiloften.nl/userfiles/file/18816141082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/furosikonuwumidonuwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wixoon.hu/upload/file/3570870855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieterheich.de/images/uploads/file/xurofetusiwivaxoraxowafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1j22g70a8r4sfqvhdi9upcq1d4/96660047282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afurg.com.br/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16395575625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613908cc38b8c---xijolavagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/70603524954.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_off0000cbd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EA 10400 bytes
SHA-256: d3dc63a694caa9df6a5bed12721d9b6d6de89f8c773c9fc4660f2d6e768de169
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB66 17536 bytes
SHA-256: c34abbf2a4b565b502eefe47fbd93a9ed9e3e025936db072cb040e6554470334