Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b7616e28dc366fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-08-14 01:41:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b69aea3de110737809063171443c4a51 SHA-1: d05725c208217b3b178b9bd14443b9c12cbbfa33 SHA-256: 4b7616e28dc366fa6961a01306a1723c726a220b36e2f2d840a4fe97c2af87f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. 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 0.9986

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://networkinglikepro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/forinuvawogel.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi.com/contents//files/75676732331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tawadufekugibawajamedavel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodmix-psc.com/userfiles/files/xaxukarafuselaninisurij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7d8cf3333---pinilijole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/digiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfee3929916fbfc6bc8365965878162a/67798254176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b38de92667375c0b9dedbfe4d8d77e6/74109446017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/437fac6b6ba263216b85b9630fa64088/42563279184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5cfc7abca9---95576716734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d24840d8b9---10422542666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodphotoshop.com/userfiles/files/86467757121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/73556791017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/93114290096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7220008d9---95245850455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/volenokurenoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/jaxatif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samuelben-horin.com/userfiles/file/30956227591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foulardfotografando.it/file/pokikeriponazadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608556f49e53e---72522102641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.net/contents//files/42562574390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/398osk9v3smvjkvec94bt6g1g2/wetaxegixezulozuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c512562cfd6---26015760594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19a168e4a9---12653675607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+recover+deleted+messages+from+android+phone+for+freePDF 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_off0000f40a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF40A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C1C 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 3fb6770c229c4be4d4c1a5b4e55b9eee75a24679c6960ecb6e69f55618fd72b4
font_02_sfnt_off00013884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13884 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 608fa118b8905c3770df7e02fde8ab56ef1028dfde270c3b6cce9caa0e316a66