Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 432c4d06d8925213…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.0 KB Created: 2021-06-12 03:57:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 487cfae7736c8dceee7f6eaa4da140cc SHA-1: 0dbc067baa5b3b5fed071ccbffa6ede607ecbc3a SHA-256: 432c4d06d8925213ae8ff29c5cd283ae076012d3ab943f7de5aa2ba89a0ad46b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'book free download' and metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, consistent with a lure for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=charlie+and+the+chocolate+factory+book+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4f7f559c4bcc18b98b0578af5bd3989/kemelawilijotexuramatanen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/5268305506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/11077761065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/206767717608b0cb3bbff8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab262650a5---7121434213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/786a119a7757d389685bb801ef6bf45a/24032606766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/8740528805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6599fc11a47ef9a71fb5a7c52a28664f/86623218475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64216e41cd36dd53ad349d7a165fc1a7/42282812507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d267e0db0f---bunulufajuseko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607921e21b08d---61550843472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/tunagikewoxitigakajusas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcdde25bc6---navuwevigasulovokixupok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/17110985754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d469764720---74216477982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607acf744318d---70235464913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20022bb3ea89dd4812d8e050437d66ba/bijozogova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4515999063ffb02ea8ce2c147097a12a/vafazorito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a04111db87130a2a70385d65bafcf3b4/zowafibovuvufijavawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3e051bf75---38381634350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00018ea8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18EA8 5236 bytes
SHA-256: c9349e992ad72298a52acf8097e4db75ffa2de1b12d24c67470e86bf53dea0d4
font_01_sfnt_off0001a085.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A085 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 0ae21fe49f02f7f18c47b4024e66c6378dc0cf661c8bd04d748fbe4280034018