Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10385353385efcc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.4 KB Created: 2021-08-01 06:41:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7581379fbf79ea29fcbfd9098e10e0ad SHA-1: 84d56cb9a8217bf34addf853a86c1946e126ff07 SHA-256: 10385353385efcc78e8bd7a4d4fb9883f6d2ce2daac5233adfa9225169f27e5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress installations, likely to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user consumption but rather as a container for these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed434703394417f10386706ef2d0c974/9923776692.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d76047cde245ed6e2b7df551ef10f74/wuxofuwefajotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j18pm7vtjl53pin7ur81qikd7u/75150029541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0315b063df---bijasasevubijasetek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bemeluzobavilari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/bumevaridokimekapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0336472ae---supovebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720b9094e8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/paziguvedomagisidop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f21e3a418d---63969438149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be0816e318---zusifer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3fa712c5ee---dedawojadiwonorozenijij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freebcard.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kaxixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1312689e6b---90657297438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c96a916b05---78086569731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608444dadc7af---69120142918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzycznescyzoryki.pl/userfiles/file/tudamijuzutugaromu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovosluzba-praha.cz/res/file/44538971798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mpdif2rhingee9egiuuunt6hoo/72092862793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/351bf51a995cc54ce14f3b7165c38aa5/bowunofinadozobosum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/udfsphmdpdld16eu56n9vmne9p/zoxudilog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/wifojefojaxukapirodijom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/24115815520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/relupojutenob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/54338036337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=bahubali+2+songs+telugu+moviePDF 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_off00015d28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D28 17976 bytes
SHA-256: 77c6bb670d5c38b5eb763f16ac69a9205d860660e045e5d190734e41278751fd
font_01_sfnt_off00018c1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18C1D 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 6dae0df9692915809b2cdd554fdc5398a8ae67aa36dbde9b8b907753b3c90f3e
font_02_sfnt_off0001a55f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A55F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1