Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d35589128fb09a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.2 KB Created: 2021-07-04 20:53:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4ccadfeaea492988710163b5685a82cb SHA-1: ec663d8e358572475444792cacad8c0db9090ff1 SHA-256: 1d35589128fb09a269e12e639fb73e1f1951af78e84685e7d0673af9355e8e26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, but the presence of external links and the overall heuristic profile strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=travel+magazine+template+indesign+free+download
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083aaeae422f---zonifoxalavolobev.pdf
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/pelenofenane.pdf
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/93026685152.pdf
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d9ab55023---63353940195.pdf
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608230774a37e---gofezoxifepoxonitozat.pdf
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/vakawatizevol.pdf
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4af8a04b0e3329fd5eead0b484cf747/luvukobiwizu.pdf
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6773aae68---tabaxopes.pdf
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/21403009891.pdf
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/442d2d4da7145a0f1f56d99a9865db10/mutotesopopetoxixotaluzu.pdf
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd49bf964f7594af45d57fc006c60c7f/zimexekowenetefagow.pdf
    • http://jamesirvinewedding.com/clients/f/f9/f947a18657f5d77a8fcd192ffd4ccf25/File/lerefojenifivag.pdf
    • https://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/55887450638.pdf
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6a6cd9561e33274d80e7968b2b3c38c/97302535054.pdf
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhma14sjlkphs5l5re1v5rmc23/kopiridabibewa.pdf
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f47facedfe---nokiraraworenefu.pdf
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7ab9a90e758cbc5fb79e9b2c16c5def/48200584517.pdf
    • https://gannat-ltd.com/userfiles/file/guliganabimujijokasuf.pdf
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/50671331908.pdf
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16qmml8q3qgn71c9dr6jlfanpn/49098646636.pdf
    • http://legendtec-eg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2ksie20j3vh882g25kvs7mqa1/nunukarusik.pdf
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81c9013cc9ed57bbd031cf1eec889be2/23240041614.pdf
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df6b1ea7812---36385369936.pdf
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b163f750397---29865011907.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af966c4e942---dozuzebe.pdf
    • 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_off000124e2.bin
50d9c816c5d8ab77a386a73e97eb1e617e2642fa46f8d2588582dd0b420194bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124E2 11016 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013e5e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E5E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015670.bin
f94ef09a09352daf780a9037bbb42e8d0e4a440b9683c805fca96ed7cb4efe67
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15670 17260 bytes