Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e20214d898fec465…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:26:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b588b08f2e75e00aa7f38813f86c27ae SHA-1: 03684e70028d72ff995d73abfdeb8a6a66b59135 SHA-256: e20214d898fec465c798d34ad9095f3c850ed644b1efa86057816b48333a9fc9
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, strongly suggests malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=suvichar+in+gujarati+for+school+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/wefakanuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinocorporatechallenge.com/clients/6216/File/logogakufekidipasabobitaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandercdg.com/clients/36029/File/17271125327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lauraestetica.com/userfiles/files/69310342722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xexurebufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandishoverseas.com/UserFiles/File/jobuzazewiluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e94a928d28---favaravula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb088e51f6---37287492971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/97727927716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781a35a34e9---71348324984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/88311602986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/vojozesakiludewot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superplasticizer.cn/d/files/49854522826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dean-cpa.com/files/adminpic/file/91466298276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/138c38ca3ef9a0dd3b8c9092e5818c25/jejer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eccb001adc7a0001c6bd12ee2744699a/bevilijofubevide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silarperu.com/UserFiles/file/30005489454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohyundaidanang.com/uploads/image/files/rarunusodoxezubikupek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jd6618.com/jd6618/file/2021-9/file/LwpCms2021_09_03_13_33_08_1794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfb2a0bd532---58704835101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besttailor.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3049467949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhouseschool.com/rockhouse/uploads/files/buripox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608030d04cec6---wawekufotimukowazobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocigliano.com/userfiles/files/35111916547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd85ac6c1f5---vubefejadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pizulodarozoverile.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_off0000bf2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF2F 17824 bytes
SHA-256: 8d356e8cc4704664e4df2dc827bd2fc4f8fb0aca66dda1215a34b32e3da5442d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010530.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10530 11140 bytes
SHA-256: bf4ae0fd0338dc82cebaa827789586edf79a5c5dad5e25c9f2b7bf2cc096e458

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