Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5da11da51c590bf1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2021-06-11 19:59:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ecde92ef182d4e7dcef2ea3e96b00969 SHA-1: b31f2a569d316fb59d457d552be23ff6dbde9dc4 SHA-256: 5da11da51c590bf1e60a80c9e6da5420313682fc6f564682479d750488eaddd0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a date, but no clear user-facing text. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the overall detection profile strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+marathi+serial+ringtone+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1b1302bea---94207997693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6uhf0eb3n5ssg8oaoj6us3rsa4/gatelakufeniwawidofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f1656944146e051ffbc67f9a36a68cf/fusifupajibuzetapawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/57920193731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3kfi8nc0k08nirqkpa637du9rt/sutefizitepotexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759d3bd6e42---juxewoludunuzopowozexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3063ee20e---wamijadokenonabagizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/8731693554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6ca3bb2f82c75bda17593aad614a072/kuwevewejokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/31538277055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a343eecf1d3---79898834300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982fb8ce0ce---wuriwedusasido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/64038781411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4k3nu7s5162u3l9h9t9a0jmh1p/xaxuxemomujira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC0F 5436 bytes
SHA-256: c9572c9409448e6982961f04fb1a71a01253ff8aed9a102cc82b21b9eb42aa9f
font_01_sfnt_off0000de72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE72 10348 bytes
SHA-256: b7a0b25a5d05d81dc6a4a3bc35a712dfe16c9f3134c5e9f838261f49feec6052