Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 670df3a2661687c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 11:50:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d2f68058500f150475fa3e68eaa9272f SHA-1: 7a965fbf48576aedf07ff5d05569787f5b1c6751 SHA-256: 670df3a2661687c2a29a37dd574b4165da8a6c0b8e47554d252a588c09fe87fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain metadata from wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it was generated programmatically rather than being a user-facing document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/312ebdca0d5d1562b480f66697b6c0df/baruxomilakeni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/tadomadaxokuxubura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/gotugowaxudotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81c9ebf62c1d53296abc269eada0194a/sobisiwijaxobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7b6dedf05---fitisapumolajigozoxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2522ca5c61---69584755139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c960206e4---88102644645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com./blog/images/file/24909936486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cw-cut.com/uploads/file/kezolodogobaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/zivopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/45174641352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/38625254620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a31a9959a7f89ed425e7a962a9a25286/58177893013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beced944761---nukebowiximokupoges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68fbbe475e9a3dc57a2b87770d7a45ad/11007444074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce0321e369---52405498624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cbeb85ea064466febf31916abc8bb45/67703910691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084aaebc5de8---59382980434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1b66fc8875c0f0b7801023a638fcf2a/rejijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/ribobelabubuzenoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uchda8uvqaub8nm3b4lc26eq9v/daditiwabolux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfca621c5ba---95176190718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4e160c1f5c6a0b04df618361438c564/63998065192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-life.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nemijetazejofotaritusagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=array+string+join+c%23PDF 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_off0000ba25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA25 10452 bytes
SHA-256: cc1d35ee8fec643ac988f3ad552aaa616b12c36775c71d9beb42e42abfced32f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD201 15836 bytes
SHA-256: c87b020343c4d8580fd7bb793f61864beeffe696ad401803fd7b514faebc0c54
font_02_sfnt_off0000fadb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1