Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 114d6502156e88ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:22:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 79fd1702f1c973aa2c1268f928b91e4c SHA-1: 9570b8972249450b92ad8a2cfe718282824b74b2 SHA-256: 114d6502156e88ca5b3a93e15f58172c0dd344fb37629e377f5e06a5fea73340
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of malware. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for human readability but rather as a container for these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://asiabiru.com/contents//files/dudebusozowotevejuwudez.pdf
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/fekidigosuvux.pdf
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac02ef0b4c2---9317256891.pdf
    • http://xn--80akoseq9f.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/59093176617.pdf
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e90d702b0b1---waparotimobinuvinibef.pdf
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f0fe339ae98a65600551b18ff73bef4/94522557904.pdf
    • https://ita.kru.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18493322290.pdf
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097057cdc08b---dafexara.pdf
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfdd7cbf299---40559317097.pdf
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/48606203711.pdf
    • http://7profi.net/userfiles/file/jivudusuvedajom.pdf
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnn307bn23tdkc5cvrojd7fq04/kobozajinorusilu.pdf
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0i2ehpdr5n4c619up0hi772hm6/pulorofurimibiligaxe.pdf
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/nudovebalemijavo.pdf
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9e4b78c36---pavove.pdf
    • http://thongthien.vn/upload/files/kakesepotunewusuxap.pdf
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/lujopudurum.pdf
    • http://fgosvo.ru/files/files/nosakawiguramomig.pdf
    • https://ruta.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83854483619.pdf
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d853707ff4bee15d2abe95e027ff2426/94466005316.pdf
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuwanuj.pdf
    • http://sjhtractor.com/d/files/32106714505.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+answer+how+much+do+you+want+to+be+paid+in+an+interview
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c091.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC091 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8a3.bin
258c22b142742ee3976436bda1351af608bbecfd7b8241b0da2302fd278b8a5f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A3 16640 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010376.bin
354204ff448e5aeb51fdfde4d72993f9814fe39aa891cdca21d7d26853c453ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10376 11228 bytes