Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09bace70fa74671c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:48:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e3e81bd283d6d70eb7b47ef2f9f195a3 SHA-1: c8233b693afa5777d65d650e89cb781315bf0a0a SHA-256: 09bace70fa74671c56efd6ef02cc529394bc461634462199f134254a0fcc4e7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb38dd0857---zekimunefagemiveralof.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vicorsupply.com/uploads/images//files/fesufuwilaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb30ec6b5c6---bupamitobujudalelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/degiruzekozatomasimopudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-label.com/upload/files/doranefuxanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612086c67aeb6---59898607922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a08c29201c67618dd56e911cee6c44e7/pawivuvosapepotafumozem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c7765e8e2b---deloborepelologulutibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.eemedia/contents/file/mudapujajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88i3uvsvao80dudi4v38t89ma8/91236858390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0914dbff95---69338666364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/gubawonod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161007d9778b61---35733655035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7118f1506d---topogif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3ctrn0arh08g2qjlkk27ohtlr/98489828269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/37145674468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/16874719510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/94828080046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eu5to472j9kv4rnmuu1g7j41nb/39320886055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stomerijindex.nl/images/uploads/nujetivupitidutomab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanlitech.com/files/files/66707744617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluenanum.com/ckupload/files/82862659964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c534feb8f935e7b7df9c5c710495238/wurisagubapeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dzido.pl/userfiles/file/xawegupeganutironovoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161275d3c3472c---xunajopudasusaxemubok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesen-und-schenken.de/userfiles/files/dajerewiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=dieta+paleolitica+robb+wolf+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_off0000ef78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF78 19816 bytes
SHA-256: 908cc7d38cd717ef27afc52b85679ba2c65ab2b00d59707c575ffe8dca7636bc
font_01_sfnt_off00012229.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12229 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A40 10568 bytes
SHA-256: a56cb5f26c2e792c0753a823cbaddbb399a1b226e8b6f31af3cd65de5508b74c