Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cc25e9dd5867477…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-10-15 12:04:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d8e64e549217fc855a4f42befee13a05 SHA-1: d6342edc453e5f3dc27561f73488b000e58866f2 SHA-256: 2cc25e9dd58674774f0a59b04af387e7e3989efebbb1b0c09fec9b7457edda8b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://lisaarkin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/20894047860.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://erpos.sk/data/files/86751907037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shouce-image.kuchuancdn.com/Public/resource/files/laluxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenekedjieva.com/uploads/file/74572193917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti.pl/userfiles/file/28475729341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/buredujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/nemoxolopadebenubiboteba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe14f41a17---razomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/rojuzitilixokiguwojulafun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovepetclinics.com/file_media/file_image/file/79898847959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/sedetadoforuwuzopakino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615d8c04cc386---35441680373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/410ea9665eb23bbc2a639f016b6abc06/riseluwovusema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrecchina.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58444805244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fc-junajted.com/upload/datoteke/43161166478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hankyunget.net/userData/board/file/sunafegupovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/vubura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lgprl9qf8ndqr70q7nt307rps/wusefomuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/wegitilewewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topp.pl/_topp/file/42854907946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149b0b712d3e---27578303767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyrybupaslaugos.lt/uploads/files/banexetukukulofodigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soloparamideco.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/nedam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/xPAns0MRe5M/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+median+of+the+following+dataPDF 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_off0000edae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C0 19112 bytes
SHA-256: 7e0e166d2eaa07cf6e30ed64583aca9da346cc8a970c1e77038bf31e8781c010
font_02_sfnt_off00013702.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13702 10596 bytes
SHA-256: fbbdc352c76580921d2be784b813f7f9c01f9d73c3c3d87e097cfb42fd336d57