Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c20844b823583059…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:16:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c49147eeda97bb7325b4c901001ba7df SHA-1: 80985b6a56c6c0db7018569f33ddcb54c831b572 SHA-256: c20844b823583059ba8403c4c37fe0d657758e6f526308d1d2a92e43b7649a6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of links to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this is a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thomas+calculus+9th+edition+book+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/katimakibipuzufitisijom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirecambodia-edu.org/userfiles/file/fuzisezalamebekelogamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ropesadventure.com/d/files/37467665693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077035a47987---tokos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/janadofupeteburule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/95629643971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhuadailoan.vn/upload/userfiles/files/53965047273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sportis.com/images/upload/galofuwoseroxolaluwesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd220cd9c4fee438328aacf62b80ad29/93388209363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0f4db5085---ruriwofaxovexowoteke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a692ebc43b552ec85659c7f8038f4f84/fovekuvekinuralupupupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/mitibipozeronab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d3c4376985119cd0e8e7d17a2a727fc/23033899819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/542df558317d586c922da1a566b2d7a2/bekerubimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45869466482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kixizijori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0pnqmtcbhuel918or5l4i5ef7/18753067875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-energy.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruzifodaroku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb487d350d---gumukegokosijonovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/17905977434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c70b1a7a4a254817fcd8860260e900a0/44447037725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/makajajedajuwitodogul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anhhuynoithat.com/asset/files/85392666227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehero88vip.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/vunurukelunajivubuvojoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokosohk.com/files/fckfiles/file/53924688205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303bcd756b8---sefesojosazivivupipegoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/76137372670.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_off0000c27d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC27D 17040 bytes
SHA-256: 50f83e01007c152bb3e99ead06c4e8935058d091693c4a261365e5e466d1de7b
font_01_sfnt_off0000eebe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBE 11432 bytes
SHA-256: 0c230d05b53d8686eb569d32fac2c05f4cb80d627b1438d513239719120fe500
font_02_sfnt_off0001096b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1