PDF malware analysis — malicious · 1ab68ea05ff49240

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:26:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16

MD5: 1a61b2e2ab28a7c9c5d240d7816cd661 SHA-1: 9939c8261cea70ed5a2eeaedddeebfec39217520 SHA-256: 1ab68ea05ff49240e4419551c89f969cbb94983230767b55b0c40753c9f06b6d

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, indicating 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 vehicle for these links.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec45718aeb---86411523064.pdf In PDF document text
- https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/110009dc65e8f0a852c05f1baa3f92ec/89247381214.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://uclerbaklava.com/resources/file/ronegamalowizuvax.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/kitirutolexesazax.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6166483201---80253896175.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/pukufatuliredimaruwex.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/56395889865.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/padamezibexada.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fc1d2c7396dc8b02ad8b091935dc124/xulitugejekezodafi.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ef4d3551f---1818883530.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79a3e7c9115acd47249fca40d7209f79/12243953351.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f5843208a---biwixomom.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/516495220.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894ddb39ae7---8087221239.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7aa4377b9284a8f924f8ee104b02360/kupufekuxadufugavoga.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786fd91fbc1---vugekijepilokanunovat.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfa603e6164---jelonafomigo.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://jljemc.com/upload/files/72742270155.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c88341def8ef00b46156c5f8878d1a86/xonanukutafikox.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/37150913146.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/xulegakarijekuvadex.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076253c4c388---82544782575.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ksr80bjoluqrrpcfrc64s8lthe/88911062208.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5cc80209e39ab885f947c9a2230d118/negosowoxuxigakevija.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://phongthuyphatloc.com/luutru/files/38232644853.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.aceitunasdelguadalhorce.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88103519105.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=clarion+adx6655z+user+manualPDF 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000e7a2.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A2	10908 bytes
SHA-256: `0d8c44af11607aa9a82a87ed610f79ae33662a25b28ea0e16b236e5de705f233`
`font_01_sfnt_off000100f0.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F0	17888 bytes
SHA-256: `8f163d7d29a52b62d4f3b47ed3e05915644b3372401a13a155d24e1005005612`
`font_02_sfnt_off00012f90.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F90	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`

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