Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 313f69ae9626a48d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 00:26:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 34044da59632190db69d9c34ef3af050 SHA-1: 1d5dc206f6656d712101fb2f7068038a2708f9f7 SHA-256: 313f69ae9626a48dc4d4e19539d562074c276d4c5dcc7b9999075ad9a9960f17
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with high-severity heuristics indicating the presence of algorithmically generated and compromised CMS upload links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDF documents from web content. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 8

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3e17cfac0f17cf55c9ba664989d24d6/bifijatijeranazelekitegif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/dakaliwutajawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138a3bd96f88---kitunuwubojisus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ffarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/26957279380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaudi.tw/upload/files/55042841932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7o12jb9i3a50k3buah4lmbcgc5/12299469705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210921051115607043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubkao-kubpla.com/userfiles/files/roruwuxivosodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqua4you.hu/userfiles/file/27794582973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/lonugogemalewofotumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chekeeh.ir/basefile/chekeehir/files/gafofanaxikozosan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://latiendasegura.com/contable_prueba/userfiles/file/fudugavevovix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilsogno-bomboniere.com/userfiles/files/95610525425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammermoor.net/imagenes/file/tunixokowifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142acacc4416---lasawolaginazasozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/52359419341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-biyoute.com/d/files/kulomidizegenitujobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desense.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/61785258465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympicburger1988.com/uploads/files/70631389724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evaemlak.com/userfiles/file///12787097517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05bfee4bb8cea5961007dbfc72671191/77621185568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationallanguagenavigators.com/media/6727019349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/kodeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogersdesignhouse.com/uploads/files/60687842317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=hide+airdroid+appPDF 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_off0000e10b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE10B 9960 bytes
SHA-256: d55b4071bdbb2c09b93f863763ea914be6ddd86540bd92ad061643ee6c7af075
font_01_sfnt_off0000f712.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF712 18420 bytes
SHA-256: 33dd1e5f6b782910a3392f9a3e44e4aa3a13c4c47b71b047bf9ee40bdfe2888e
font_02_sfnt_off00012737.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12737 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1