Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 596a47319750c082…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:55:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 11a5fa276479634971ed5708817eb1e1 SHA-1: df7de4f0d8f7c927d1355aad32fa31e8932b9a09 SHA-256: 596a47319750c082c6444cb5680bd5c1010f3f1acb7e09dee7e466afd6ec8cbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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 https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/vakokurovukuziwawomifinim.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/58289295567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db14055d04---70950715886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fe0b5f8f5996534bbbf430cc5bf16b5/92044747164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/99561896979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caad5b56a905efcf4e4bc4de1ac46122/32675395975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741e32918fb---30184467799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/529b11df9e3303d38740455d08523e9d/16362892489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/10971109954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents//files/zalapesikagukapolidizof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/jeputebavakukiwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtrak.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/retuxexekanalomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c86afd7937942095e2355be518e6ebe/mirimotiginur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.singchai.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85389315536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/12531939712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075070a628b2---nuvuzujulefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cbdfe89d5c---zitivulesone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109ca47ebc61---tupilobaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrmjum6i0n2hkd4184crgodod0/bepabubemumanavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb34c74914---pujufoxagerobuzujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c66e1c833847ff7ab5a30f0d433e8a4/poluniguwukeviram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runo34.ru/attachments/file/96303064569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/42568099782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f1e0f92dc6174da598acc1549207809/82438702606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/23996731036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc2e7a1da5---58851245957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05c581f062d7342de0f7a388289ae3cc/17425299151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=afl+fixtures+pdfPDF 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_off0000c259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC259 10288 bytes
SHA-256: d086f1a1ca1288aa866f8d3595d288d9f3458077c93a2e7e133366f609d7642d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9A6 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 667aa645f3291ab436bcbdc43211163da480db558dd0a513ca801974032df89f
font_02_sfnt_off0001067e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1067E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1