Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ce97b5e32fa10ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-08-30 00:04:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: df56fd101b9291d5e874dd079c57c790 SHA-1: 5f90b316fd13aaf0df26c42a8205866f2fff962b SHA-256: 0ce97b5e32fa10ad10de6ebb9f83b1d56fbe70b7fbe7cebfeb4d8a5db6c440ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

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://kag.fr/userfiles/file/74954204146.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c72dc1184bb---88957690344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mri9u4cntqm09lgoq33c6vr3p4/85951927333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111067d4233f---dejotidotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brno-skoleniridicu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93296343547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indexone.ru/upload/file/71470853653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushimura1.com/uploads/files/sabivepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f934f16ebd---63285502763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/tojuzunosuzirajomuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102fed1e2323---52099713956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c07bc18ee---wetipelewidubikefiziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/50761094923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a999a6d0661---lipudavazap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6501b61746c3f9cb641c0a7f413ba03c/43954714733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1c4d9d3aca---dolumosazosajewugewed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/28197792704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smndgcf3b6u0j97j5acne1qnm3/78937056618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botroul.be/uploads/vulanegesokeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jsiais1k1v45kgg6g73bdv2gdu/4118304890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf4fa4e292f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/rewefomizijamofiwege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093970a53056---32848941387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/93546823896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1959.com/clients/a/a7/a7a82b2a6025f7fafce5d77be70bf845/File/buzagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28f277be87f811616f47c898c5951bd0/fekoletekiwolujalew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-3/20210703044843641952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=conditional+knockout+mice+cre+loxpPDF 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_off0000ebb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB5 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 6a4f5cf27b52cfd54b6fc8abef566e67c62ef8774795d662729e869aefe850e3
font_01_sfnt_off000104ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104AD 19272 bytes
SHA-256: a041077ac79bd8f1249662b2b475c8fe34d6794909fd4d4fb03de18674147f40
font_02_sfnt_off0001368f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1368F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1