Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 479a45be0f636da2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-10-05 13:00:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 2328311670d88766c0bf686313f3741d SHA-1: 0495f905ad5fb40246a96d1c8e5bdf1c8b63f7f7 SHA-256: 479a45be0f636da23a41cfd33dd166de3b14f403a3f0d54643b3fcc07312d780
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. 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 0.9955

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://muaah.ca/userfiles/files/86251215465.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gniortho.com/files/Upload/file/xadugun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cc62583a6beaede5b125cb3a35b1369/55471259157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarkar.ie/userfiles/file/dajubutogelonujex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-life.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fedefebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irepairplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wakavuvuxifemaxobigiwaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/rurusobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroteam.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gunuzarefalurokuwopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vantainoidia.vn/ci/userfiles/files/68029149801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapraptti.org/userfiles/file/gafurefufaselanisezovimeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelone.ae/userfiles/files/zojomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allier.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/supelakupovuguzawera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimar.ua/userfiles/files/lawaxebuwulaluwepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marikitaberbagi.com/userfiles/file/25830435191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/woxuxirewibatefav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatjehuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/zulukajugit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19411c9624855c6abd598846823accd5/22455956062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/lofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichgiahy.com/upload/file/popetuloju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/karixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accutindustry.com/Upload/files/20210928000524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/73449881103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/30836785140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7v1qlfph9lqst36s3ata1rl4aj/91410757042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=lol+boy+picturesPDF 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_off0000dd13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f525.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF525 20404 bytes
SHA-256: b664d9d5e0674ab2f3b6fb7e60eb4bea809d9b15081debcfca5db7e2123894ed
font_02_sfnt_off00012a56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A56 10412 bytes
SHA-256: c3de3b3a88ea342be59544d162e2a832e79f83f3931ff14c6f9755d5bd13085a