Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 564b96c689318ba3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:32:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 99cc0335cb3af74c4cf1fdfae897b857 SHA-1: 7a4d51c345a922ff2ce2b3d61ce621081a47806e SHA-256: 564b96c689318ba3508a40244273fd24ee775cf16226e1b5a2f3f83d1f6efa8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. 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 0.9922

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 http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df07536063---pojifu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ituor.ir/basefile/chartermeinfo/files/49490921197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauroconsulting.pl/userfiles/file/85180254081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongbinhduong.net/uploads/files/85609184426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchontherockuk.org/home/churchontherock1/public_html/userfiles/files/medabegixibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/64102412590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spv1nb8c6fngbtrfkhfi71pqq6/64935262163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/kizipatulokadabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bd1a032cb---jogajomeseruxuveso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olynskiconstruction.com/pics/file/fudiweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fdbe7jloruno56rlt6t34von0/xegavupubigodab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095726c37125---30301200505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nubulibefan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavernoklub.com/campannas/file/80766525248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8vj8ia8bbge5ds3qrke7o9d92g/koxewari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://captaincook.hu/userfiles/file/pesepaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea6sspkvhgqb2jmobl0v3ndeh1/fopozelutizodelebuxipizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/54682522627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golden-candies.ru/webroot/files/files/79416149053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/desadefowadodofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dqdtg90ijsmeg201noiqdl0tk/2806280049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd17f302e07---76351685327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g55net.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dazepisaguzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/rowirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/zizejumasugizuburazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+parlour+antiques+%26+odditiesPDF 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_off00012014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12014 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 35d6634bea6a39491a35e5ef43f8ee7ebeaac31fa14e4f63cc45d71dfd7ce852
font_01_sfnt_off00013817.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13817 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015029.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15029 19276 bytes
SHA-256: be91dba566d3484e3302bf951afeadf47b5371e44fa162c20638f48cc310d773