Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64a12f1f34ff4b72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-06-09 15:45:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f46fa4d688d1ba3a772b1869cb417722 SHA-1: ee5e966e01c2cd8661c4e8c850ce34f7b3fb36c9 SHA-256: 64a12f1f34ff4b724a3e653aba1d20b83d7c8bda9263a0d0c3f913c2831571ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with multiple heuristics indicating it's a PDF link farm. The document body is heavily obfuscated but contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf. The numerous extracted URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, strongly suggest 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=xhosa+anglican+hymns PDF link annotation
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eca2370ee684cf91f3f9502fe78b5d39/44503041352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/32058440868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/vanar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e43681ef233112bf21518d9554d7bc4f/33205587969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be528d534e4---61146999577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t7sa7lrmt0e7s56hnm37ss9hcr/11929470827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2b109c9e5---kurumimufefeximimepepipij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db1684683b---72167120653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d168771805---46208121860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab752cb69d388c934f60605d94e45595/52600271271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929d676381a---99491855305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b291701290b---vaxirasigujafatepojinezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/213cb2cb68e88e583deca612d300df0f/61542924896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceb7f82e2848ec80e2f04c00c278ca85/bisoxi.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_off0000ea42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA42 5196 bytes
SHA-256: d1df393f70caa6be06fde7be8c46b8baa9185be3cacdc7966ea9660eee1ad3d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD9 11660 bytes
SHA-256: cfc020e9a26a489679e09040c8f8dc7f3e71ead72fbf34569447c950a63d6858