Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 323422db3834f3c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:44:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: dca5738a6afb942f4cb9d7620500f179 SHA-1: d907b570b2021d2d007f78bdfc22f8189ffe8665 SHA-256: 323422db3834f3c7ec6b913f581a1d4273ff250c55ed32ba59ffd52fff2f233d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and link farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, which is not typical for legitimate documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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=2015+ford+mustang+manual+transmission+problems PDF link annotation
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc30036105f6262b59fa3cdce4e55806/12450762894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/7696603469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822d4e12968---29256789165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fda4b3df034---65781868576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksboutlet.com/file/files/tisaropulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36818344377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/kinafanonifibanuwuxijamuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eldorado777.ro/upload/editor/file/29854594812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/wutamowadiripedusorubano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7a9988ef9---midem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamennykoberec.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/tatodijirexotetame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/99918758077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19ebecc2cb922aa174c87d609688fded/28584250081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koffiewarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/26266666876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d468b0e47d9---30238862513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6aa87a4599---kutusonekiloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsubienhoa.com/upload/ck/files/24152280246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.net/userfiles/files/gevadoropewiriguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vl8sal53tu8akft1sm70dr7nh/2694211712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021071405333278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082780668a43---62943330278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://singer-island-condos.com/userfiles/files/kijij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ojo0kleo09qf58hv02uag2kb2/1682968602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boras-sjuharad.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/porozisezasiwatafeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/fulepelumev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ccb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCB1 15992 bytes
SHA-256: 7ed904e51c091ca98dfee51710a29b24a4bfd4f99362200a543af1fc838bd072
font_01_sfnt_off0000f56d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF56D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D84 11412 bytes
SHA-256: e7300af30a25227460b6bfb7500d565492918505eef67eff7a6ab08cbe1aa430