Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f66ec98433b293a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 00:49:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6b2ae2053882f43cb48c950ba6b0da8e SHA-1: 532aef25b9f85bfc0c44a40b0976d4c733c54946 SHA-256: 4f66ec98433b293a379a2b1f4e16d5691092b97bd233e1aedbd85b7f9ef2e9d2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports this. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's not meant for direct user reading but likely for exploitation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc9b6c0bb4aebb526170531d5a045543/bijuwupilazulikepivuxonuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://profipreklady.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuxivepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3rr1cq1ulvkla03e9mt0obg6q/tatikitetimufavibobilexil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piphoto.tw/uploads/files/202109101533038409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://breedlife.com/upload/files/69728182839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1000families.eu/userfiles/file/jomisidoreloluledefelefuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613251eeca144---dozadoturisomigam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faguaflowers.com/images/admin/file/pavidulafoligosemakol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickform.cz/obrazky/files/36917804399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kokomanis.com/contents/files/siduxakitemekada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janjoling.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lijitotetenitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55169217064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themetamorphoseprogram.com/userfiles/file/90167578219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/67436754370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pielinks.com/UserFiles/file/88417378299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawaiianhunareiki.it/file/pefobofovorasorevuvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koparieshorvathbusz.hu/files/file/jakawikutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuaabshanquoc.vn/files/77699222938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/pivuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huh.hu/UserFiles/File/sinisogab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0f0f4402a---58959093873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/wavisexadofogimezeper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.sk/upload/3839596914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbeb66bf89275359e6625af055640cb8/4261778624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+android+adb+usb+driverPDF 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_off0000c221.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC221 10624 bytes
SHA-256: a2a8a1836da837621f3c5291defeed41dfd347a272b7aa43fb8d404365290e32
font_01_sfnt_off0000da8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA8F 22152 bytes
SHA-256: d84739845f79a64beef8808145951a98235212afe0fdd27b3f1bfaba0f24043e
font_02_sfnt_off000113e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1