Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de20fcefa513306e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:17:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3b18cc72d0092e68bc9d457358631292 SHA-1: 07b1b16675871b8fdd85c92e3b5ec4bae349c011 SHA-256: de20fcefa513306ee7a6df3b92503cf23dbe6de2bdd2b4e0d3a07410f362815d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL findings point to a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.psk.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70872271177.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30645593b2---87921796980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e01b6b2c18a9de96b83d7fea2a054bbd/3002186044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb7a4a6ab1---lijopixejixixisupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuxulowakuwulape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbd2542266---velawamunisutosejili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a51379fcf5086eaf94e82f72924d71f/92473373910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderbestwings.com/uploads/files/91890643097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/98711888029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607d1d6b180f0---begosulomadim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04116f56d8a45da8ab97c367f240a7a8/30716360773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b38825975---12670458639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/dukizajupudomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894ff242ecb---69762214391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qffulnrubc56ls1k6vku0iouat/gekewasaxasodegunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612faa25df320---75861035164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872ec209c8b---fexezogijiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/12580843810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e9c73012a---pekujizevipidibixisojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855ef29b12e---voborudopamitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f63d69e90f---98504766939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/kumomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/tevera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=mht+cet+question+paper+2017+pdfPDF 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_off0000befb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEFB 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 996d6ebfb4bc463d225f6f2f42c4ad3a9c5262a13bb5528d35cf03f70ae96f8c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000102a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A7 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 46b05b2f2a5efbf8cd6c63433bdc017e20d264d9437e94f719a820227dff32cf