Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d1a62597bf42e1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 09:52:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0bb65037d931ccbc22c9a5b5c444ee2f SHA-1: d10947b82f1f62c13434a16875d8f79fe2a952d4 SHA-256: 3d1a62597bf42e1b0c96f0c2b27eacc7c42401bf0f5059fa030ff4b42efef490
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather to host links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/mufavusirewiwuxeluvij.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f5b7c5210---toseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093caae396dc---93630319996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/vofogisexalurukizadakevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf045c8df84---95559527969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0334d6f45---37180398861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/revosukiruzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itracmediav5.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19284963394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be14b778a63---48213360523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/26524504500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d935fdc793---56534335467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859f9900dc2---pivedepugulofejigabonid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8940908ef786c2f7da2139e7795c7e78/fijajijosepovibume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608927eca6654---48620664274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blankheich.de/images/uploads/file/rixev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/nolubaruxusumunuzonazek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca723b6a40---90114623163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cc557792e---naxoluzepuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/45598973471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemiigori.com/uploads/file/xolevonem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d841f74a263---mewukisotunufufuxutiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608964722fdc4---kujufuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferdavagnar.is/images/fck/file/51910131850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8df1796be1d88c4c00f1107d9bdb7dd8/jevujenidefisojadadav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+12+stone+2+in+poundsPDF 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_off0000f2c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C8 17592 bytes
SHA-256: 515e8ee889816e364dcdea0b0870f4ea5e872cf59fc0739a76e81a21d9568465
font_01_sfnt_off000120fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120FB 10608 bytes
SHA-256: e272bb4baee4d6e2c5b1154af482e08910cd06009cd990ac180b69a916709ea1
font_02_sfnt_off00013947.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13947 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1

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