Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6672bdc0d43ebd1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.4 KB Created: 2021-10-23 06:56:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 21b394945414ae7247d086786dcc390e SHA-1: 84443ba8c78b3f0d82c87dc737e879856b04bb4a SHA-256: 6672bdc0d43ebd1c0bbe29505da80a7ca461b332e714d166496d9f6c3ecd57f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to direct users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing text but containing embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9806

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 http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/zosotilag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed2a0d05e19cbda30512cd11e6d8fdfc/nadoxekijibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kk2782floib9fr581ul74862l7/29430703461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links-europe.com/images/blog/file/13577238130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgrdpandher.com/userfiles/file/23231272553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6143d1ad4fecdd52a9f92b9cd6698940/sebizejapowuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/watoket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzwgjx.com/d/files/29690443587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhsuasolieu.com/media/files/80475309118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/wikeguzojuwopapuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controldellaves.com/app/webroot/arxius/file/jogamixefawederafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quesnelfoundation.ca/userfiles/file/46236885714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/37772820048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cen7dias.es/userfiles/files/rewejabutiwamijutuledaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32798969735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strefaokazji.pl/uploaded/file/tubupekuledut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rintrans.com/files/82111758536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uhcp.com/editor_upload/file/75375024936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://print-printonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zujumuzimegujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakpluspizza.us/userfiles/file/98895642499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvit-bk.ru/userfiles/file/fasiwuxonomefuram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamxmpharmatech.com/upload/files/55569266070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f2d4d8ef49---52376042812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/pipobuzisikugidefumuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents/files/zeredaruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616f28a9bbecb---68429593568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/RC0zOYPQW8A/uplcv?utm_term=wither+storm+5PDF link annotation
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/namur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14402313693.pdfIn 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://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_off00010c55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C55 18780 bytes
SHA-256: 64d86ae1c2ce12d7022d0832aa84abc445886d6eed69b4f8bae1e42448ab4c3a
font_01_sfnt_off00013d0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015524.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15524 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 2fecf7b98ca64c8c5c17554e748ae844e783968c9adb7dcd4a9671565382d0b7