Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67d413119ea03c45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-07-14 05:45:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f4e3d982299e4d1ba9149f4c91f51e2f SHA-1: a01dccc20fe68c1403955bc11460350d2f2601d4 SHA-256: 67d413119ea03c45ba8991fa30b781fd086f075624521f9fbef0e63fc3be11cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847e225f612---2959449155.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ee6f0c48ef34ae407b5947a619d059/xezilevekope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5112ec4df6---pasukuzexejumusoniduzof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90a0d813cbc5bbea027bf81c2792ecc7/93637049971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d02c23742---tegoditulaluni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd001239bc---74602674049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f20f3d39f3---gugabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087620378755---53499256177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotoprint.lv/downloads/file/jemikabuzenug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat2.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sijelelekujike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf333515c6---nagufavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/nutuxabevijipejap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c06db58008b---makarisafitulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882196efd72---xereweropitafidalumasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/doxotija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/68919183584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heryeryesil.com/resimlerfiles/18683159678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/butav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happypalettebnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/11974621506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/katobupeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/25680967482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3034ee8b8---39300134409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/49543631811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3670c7321---roguboripuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7ac7da519---78926411834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/42524119182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=iron+obtained+from+blast+furnace+is+known+asPDF 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_off0000da6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA6F 18760 bytes
SHA-256: 0dffdc264031c552ba09b188ac1baa6efdb47a369dee2d2083c7bc639b310262
font_01_sfnt_off00010a48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001225f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1225F 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 6f14538c1bf3f17a77f8d66e465da0b02d9fd8d794bcf5509159998b485e4022