Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 518520c4a6b9212d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 06:24:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 013712327fd141af8a9ea69f55d41769 SHA-1: 0bf6a9d8f725765ddd58c0644ebd1328a5393fa7 SHA-256: 518520c4a6b9212d7fe93dad13407008aa79a96ca4a3f94265d5e402eb0e2c2e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. 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 0.9917

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/wilapivapofazojobu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/6364129339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drbumbnursinghome.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47632980519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161465407c8ee1---bumafadorotajabunuxukoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbcmedia.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51822427476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/6721449409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiosushi.com/uploads/files/47518512477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210903025451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/19123168252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugang360.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912102504388720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/22756204580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evabizz.com/userfiles/file/79135699979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54148613622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161468a1ee1304---zuzawexodotoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/zutav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15d3d6bfed24cf1d0ebf0ad3b02a64b5/powomutofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopsrus.aerovents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kusujaferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/28247484875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snbedu.com/uploadfile/file///2021091409174861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/duwufibujunivogara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59324639289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbjcazdrhzgiddbbcsg4l.xn--p1ai/pict/file/9110547533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreuma.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64379828627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613852f48a077---vodelevekujofenuwavobat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modernplating.com/userfiles/file/wupaxekap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarpaket.ru/userfiles/file/67161479445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=mechanical+properties+of+rubberPDF 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_off0000d622.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD622 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE34 19104 bytes
SHA-256: 8d7d6bae7612b73bb0d4e5cd7a186a155c755d5c33d0b596df0e3c7d702a7eb2
font_02_sfnt_off00011e5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E5B 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 42b7a40ce12a1eed5bae913da190354e52b12ab7aee808414e902d01b2ad3fe2