Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 064174c11ded6afb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-24 22:47:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e66b0d80b76308ebd547e41e3ea06f1b SHA-1: 8a9f1fd4aeb78a0ef81c8adae5544e2985706551 SHA-256: 064174c11ded6afb45fa8d81ddf41fd53a23cdf36ab5cd63dcbb7d9e8830bd00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://xn--b1adbbbaeqjtsflbfms0e.xn--p1ai/pict/file/dotoxapovuporogasowuzibi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stroyindustry.com/userfiles/file/8407525862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietnam-intraco.com/webroot/img/files/26540411733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giayviettri.com/img-ftec/files/14840441376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sov.tranovice.org/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/febaradudajedabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9nv0bssojk6jefd1hp2bgo1rn/65461629201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af5a6caf734195c940f95246a193844a/55269724223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/88533461200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413caba57ba---55199795555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mensagemcrista.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37063219950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/wujuzaxiluxasulajusaxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seritour.com/rsm/files/50279378996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleni.cz/userfiles/file/25286189163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kizkulesikizogrenciyurdu.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/naxowarajabewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///bozitixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8cb10dc534e0ea05a96d3e94410d9f4/66016680141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8970ca237f5df3630872657d1ed57fc/64656074360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmahavidyalaya.org/lion/uploadedfiles/fck/files/file/1583698385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweddlefoto.com/files_contenidos/upload/files/38904595774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131596c7fc88---felemiwusobud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szilasfood.hu/pic_upload/files/59857883528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfm2os0sn39dtnd6l9s47c6jgn/2515892057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chothuexehochiminh.com/userfiles/file/wofurubopebagasiroxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://another-partner.morefriendship.com/upload/files/repomemedususi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=phone+games+to+play+with+girlfriendPDF link annotation
    • https://unimedbelem.com.br/painel_template/assets/global/plugins/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/fizelad.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_off0000b24e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB24E 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 75a193285bfa4024fad2389ef4c976eac5c602e30e9d4ac812e453d8fa1e6826
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e415.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE415 15756 bytes
SHA-256: ea4bab0beae9d8b97acb54416cd58f8e819f5dd40a1e381224f86769f3f0d880