Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 074e9ea4d4bad4e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-06-06 23:31:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 13a3b25bcbfee3d0b89a9f73c4a04022 SHA-1: 1233b3d5106b0a36e30609578e93b25bcb340231 SHA-256: 074e9ea4d4bad4e733c0457b1b60fe7d6a37a77055a3e8a89351bca5241460bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and 'despeje de ecuaciones lineales calculadora', hinting at a lure to disguise the malicious nature of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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=despeje+de+ecuaciones+lineales+calculadora PDF link annotation
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4cb855a62---xupatofagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2j5n7lt85cksv6rq3pb0hedj2/14347270935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/29185067294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075701892dea---bopedurono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088586a3d89c---5246230686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d8f19c0e1b242693977797980c50fdc/kisinebuwepupewovexukixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31275376227768d271c94383bd0c31fa/77869552692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/30293468508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092240324ca4---matuwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/27463396466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1a6d40c347---83203591302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91b1155b75---tuponekaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098827196533---61605641331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/30489663022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/zivigagelusenodifisulofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d0a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0A5 5144 bytes
SHA-256: 6c5be807dcaf54df0508cd8204fcbc91eba51a784e0af6a381bfe55fa9062cce
font_01_sfnt_off0000e237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE237 11556 bytes
SHA-256: 86f786da19f23fc9fc9d15f315011dc11cb0a9f11d6e9ca25dbdf1f250c12b62