Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e148030beee328f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 17:12:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a6b19d8d630c5358e2e4830c6d2b41a6 SHA-1: 02e68ff960d864f08a76de47dcd594c88e6fde70 SHA-256: 2e148030beee328f7a5d8bbff5ebe6315c516a815b0c6ea2440b76e3820a35aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high ML score and ClamAV detection for phishing and trojan activity. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+view+app+usage
    • http://khangvietdn.com/uploads/file/zarewiwaxaxi.pdf
    • http://galerie45.com/userfiles/file/74664869035.pdf
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/pedufumewozulofubafuv.pdf
    • http://centromedicoveterinarioadda.com/userfiles/files/kilozisevigupuje.pdf
    • http://chaputlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mirorogakexotigu.pdf
    • http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/56792587337.pdf
    • https://digbijoynath.in/uploads/userfiles/files/ridozuzilalizutomazasa.pdf
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.com/upload/jigunemivakibidowevat.pdf
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/86801567652.pdf
    • http://zeshengtecphar.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210914005840.pdf
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/2613788071.pdf
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a9ead214ba---nepudugirubexulenasopas.pdf
    • http://locthanhroyal.com/upload/files/61656349081.pdf
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614073d2213e0---59026472053.pdf
    • https://pushtypathshala.com/demo/aims/files/images/files/timagosajerel.pdf
    • http://zekejozsef.eu/FCKfeltoltott/file/35955805466.pdf
    • https://tavfelugyelet.megujuloenergiapark.hu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53478959695.pdf
    • http://buffagiuseppeinfissi.com/userfiles/files/xiwifaladopepajodedoris.pdf
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416338efea7---punurimoledifegugavif.pdf
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021090401361027.pdf
    • http://mis.nrru.ac.th/gradjournal/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xesonosij.pdf
    • https://pinyardim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/takizodezanijoj.pdf
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.cn/files/kikidetubimuk.pdf
    • http://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/wiloseseletiseluseso.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_off0000e9e4.bin
4e82c3f4032478cf28e0b3d5aff65fc41eac66428e177083cb4639529451d12d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E4 18280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000119a2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A2 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000131b9.bin
f038c95976be1d66c1b04eae29e61cc0686074b960ac7e4d064fc30cd42f3940
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B9 10656 bytes