Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f20e291407061e2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 00:50:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6b6c2ee17f31e2e9f61b2147c5f201d8 SHA-1: 5e36c0c399ccd30395dac4238fd37ed1169c489e SHA-256: f20e291407061e2c5ae94fa45a1055473e00db3b1bc1600dbecf73dca96a9624
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+mega+emerald+x+and+y+cheat+codes PDF link annotation
    • http://0225674989.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jidopagusapubivokapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enerjimakine.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/pasedobanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peisheng.org/uploads/ckfiles/files/612fcb4ead1b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramor.bg/userfiles/file/51275844035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144d5202a773---97065043293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32419232922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76114512076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/togewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamalight.net/business_school/uploads/file/darenekar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/mivumolavanunuvexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaovuanh.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/tuxejalafemeponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radiopoint.cz/userfiles/file/gobafowugisefijuvudajoneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://8njl.com/userfiles/files/56506954899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartstone.ca/userfiles/files/87284611260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chorland-dining.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/31663077457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/demafawamowelojelofuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161331dab2ab01---42497328573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/files/31656782822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eventpro-kontraktorpameran.com/uploaded/files/83962369070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuli-china.ru/d/files/lazexizewigajafoworoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24x7taazasamachar.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/girudapubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/23830854764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25935132217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b0554f368---jitiguboveripuketuw.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_off0000e9db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9DB 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 7935e803475cf786fdae5698d8da09226e5aec09011a62991eeca31e6d820b18
font_01_sfnt_off0001033f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1033F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B51 18280 bytes
SHA-256: 4a103fb60ce58bedd2028bb8f73a59505ef5231fc4bc6ce341b375322b2c64a1