Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c1801ef36943f8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:47:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c3eff29a0237a8a89031d4740fed6227 SHA-1: 08efb08bea952c46871ad7eb5e6422ed840c4fd5 SHA-256: 4c1801ef36943f8a9ac0dc35e03634674f39d5ced0c15f56ca2bbb9102c75713
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. 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 vehicle for these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=math+worksheets+with+answers+for+5th+grade PDF link annotation
    • http://bjsprt.com/uploadfile/file///2021051311544438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoanalyze.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1336e6f5f82c6742d15d5d93aa9adca4/bojadefaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tnmkor.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_B05334591F2DD14F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi2.com/contents/files/zanalotidanum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15h06t450pg5i328dinbqk5inr/niloso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a843eb18442---badowewuzopekasigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/rugukavekulubogunibaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solentpodiatry.com/jackvl940/web/content/images_uploaded/file/nitefegezusot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airholic.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/petelefikatexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a35515635a---44174324113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mintaialuminum.com/d/files/87581456108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202104/file/50080727186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1b55be2ab---pitob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hattoco.vn/images/ckeditor/files/xojaxomabelorujuludigik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6af162392295ded544e4cfbea279e152/kijebomolixobegagarapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.com/upload/rawowutiwezerimitavona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55675492103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608beb1311f59---495241514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ec4ba57bd7cfdc09793ef55d99086dc/noxufebalutopesiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holdemigny.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78816971432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remproekt-m.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pujibiluniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/13256483036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/222f5c1f6e2581ad4d91dca07091b80b/56438304627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/77311422575.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_off0000df28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f73f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF73F 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 3c769a538570b8e0615cb60774e7349b1ab6e823fbfd6b16ce2609922b4d7765
font_02_sfnt_off0001105b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1105B 17264 bytes
SHA-256: cf6af3da5ecccb6e4f93c319e103cf9623e91232c3f361ffec246d6d55eee320