Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6278b0602b5d2475…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.1 KB Created: 2021-10-01 07:37:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: b597ab20276ddc8ecaa3133710f65259 SHA-1: 3f756b3d1d13cc4a6fdede4db51ebb16f81bc985 SHA-256: 6278b0602b5d24751b71ff46b0d1caaf0ba622be57e6d1e9e18a8867d4ffa50e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. 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 0.9905

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gran+turismo+7+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://miyagi.chi-kara.net/Upload/files/49669127912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunpower.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47419293445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horkolas-gatlas.hu/ufiles/file/15596360805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/36335622420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasikampung.info/contents/files/tuwigitirodefipabixagar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ks91ea7856dgcrqm3vkdvg0n8/jimaranuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ex2010.com/uploadfile/file/2021091407561773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfe-design.dk/userfiles/file/4714474207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jawarakreasi.com/file/zijini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chafewyuok.handysociality.com/upload/files/lutonefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madveras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/takiribifuzewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ds-dq.com/uploadfile/1632871183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfhotel.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/datamagudewawuzaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkschoenenverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/11828879201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sethhukumchandschool.com/userfiles/file/5358060125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muvabufawaxopubusid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210915175937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmsz.com/upfolder/e/files/20210925090904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patriabrno.cz/userfiles/files/maroluzuzozomunogolunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faptvmedia.com/userfiles/file/mirerozumelitewufuwuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointwebhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/89935623506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc0b5252eef8e5192c97931e2e3fe732/lepudoniba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d7dd681d42---11298291629.pdfIn 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_off0000ad9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD9E 15720 bytes
SHA-256: 7a705851588e8a7db368c6a4337d2ac11c93aac8192439b977188ae5218c2f34
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ede7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE7 10516 bytes
SHA-256: b4c88b681df1bee5610acb5d1fa3d4f79783a79e11ffee14e78ec74b7f3e01a5