Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 534dfa517909a513…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 14:11:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bfacbdae45c1fa4f7b46770dccffd1ff SHA-1: c88c22f06b0e85a0fae0e85123a9956c32f99725 SHA-256: 534dfa517909a51390f39ebe4ae2e449a7b3a4d6bc6eb2ed197db57b62d2cbd2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's a lure to redirect users to malicious content.

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://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/45324574971.pdf
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/53633223969.pdf
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e7968f114---73446123268.pdf
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/63270671054.pdf
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19d7a67d0c---63960771185.pdf
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c248b69f8c---riwazudefepusujuviromu.pdf
    • http://jordanfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/51/51534e3e38036466a76ca8a024fd4923/File/9345770044.pdf
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9d9c81f02---kesupiponemavibat.pdf
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/perefazemipojus.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0035ceabe---kefedus.pdf
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb2425496c---jozixosipe.pdf
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/1251935788.pdf
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd97774f7d---8279249627.pdf
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/46751190309.pdf
    • http://sweetbasketsbyjackie.com/clients/864293/File/kopiluzijevu.pdf
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42b6e5be3f6e33921f916e7810772e76/93409338791.pdf
    • http://vote4dannybarry.com/clients/2/2f/2f5d4f67c16906f9b09010289963de11/File/vaguzezukativeluj.pdf
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02507342c17d1c90dce7fcabafaeeceb/donewilo.pdf
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7b3403b3b99493f78b7558a6770af40/kumopogakagapupovome.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3884ae7176---retuwopume.pdf
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877ac4b468a---fabutosapawomitepazune.pdf
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ponub7agkcqn2473koh3ddmgsf/91281618930.pdf
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a99367c01---xezozevutobaz.pdf
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abf1dc64cab7fe2398479f4d41b2f314/65281213675.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=from+twinkle+with+love+read+online+free
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e45c.bin
70048e6f5b2d751d9e8089e0e24838aced6bb04dce97e7fac25d15d64bfc76d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE45C 10672 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc9c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000114ae.bin
62c760c05f6a8361b17bd697e2d91eb979e56dc9ed30509965392485ee953dcd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114AE 17440 bytes