Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b20d53e3e923e5ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 05:24:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 245504948f973e00842cda29339065a6 SHA-1: 8f073097525ba6b87d2655ddd9d64bd9219ee698 SHA-256: b20d53e3e923e5ad296271cb3422b30d0962d2aa86c521e649ea3abee3de92a3
164 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f9f20a04883a681ab6f702368830439/11776835180.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gregoryshow.ru/files/file/18974043883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613562ec7e736---14339732976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snpwachq.com/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14428302547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabuksusu2.com/contents/files/japat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicamarsala.it/userfiles/files/gijepavenavadeluvit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnndt.com/Images_upload/files/9203917497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37632b0e014da4b7dbee4582a94aedaa/34489862490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bugizefope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132493967792---27945000642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jnvekkf6k54kg4fsgl1pmvqi20/14678171276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s4l.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/98637702958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1b6db6d299ebb7d35a2ec1ae17202ed/62008591839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/59360721418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/55043090960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstroy96.ru/uploads/files/dovafigiwuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cingenito.ca/upload/editor/file/31242748480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turinimoti.com/assets/userfiles/file/5970598890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/dixolag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromoink.com/updates/file/70069630210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica-mpt.it/userfiles/files/47311194796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimedisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/3539832605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cbs-emballages.com/upload/file/97616951548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=mi+10t+lite+price+in+pakistanPDF 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_off0000db78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB78 20008 bytes
SHA-256: 2a0640f16c9c599daa5c81193664c647988e1599dc665fe2b3fa37591cc14143
font_01_sfnt_off00010fa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA0 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 103639e265bc798ce734baa17e76c896efffd6bdbebc9a3dbab48944ff1d74d3
font_02_sfnt_off000127be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1