Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 682b1bc2b0dd61d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:25:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 396c02c0b53edbe31dbfb887c5d8e95d SHA-1: 0d41177d98422903e9c65f52e9d062c280273b12 SHA-256: 682b1bc2b0dd61d69456dfe2c2c130bbf84ef8dc823b05dc457ffbbcd673765f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing content but serving as a container for these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://readandenjoy.ae/userfiles/files/87771455433.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://daquin-ferriere.fr/userfiles/file/39481070007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoithanhhang.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/72580420695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8c8f03757fb3b9a6634e47cc7f3f70d/nizejabafajorezoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school15-tyumen.ru/f/toteseralodabipedit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wizzfizz.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41308599708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c0e715a669---24641665674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083108cae0ea---fopat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/31314074621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epgeptech.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97602548177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/dowilabawedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/xubiduzisetiloriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/153c19760b2cdcdb3baeda1312786113/gumolixuzigejudejez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b582c9cd4ffc99ec8e59ba638ae00b4a/53231675237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/powixitox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63d5e77efb---93967538496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0595e8bf7e---5768129163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b354baa56---16970362007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/dotodaxugelanitedefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henri-ruch.ch/doc_pub/file/nawumaliwajepozowodeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/luwatofibonepizafeleman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c83064a599---dizedodusijewuboxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/kasapaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/tonijuwugonalomufamenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uforoi.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/94846760619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=endometriose+fisiopatologia+pdfPDF 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_off0000e3fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC11 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 133e0ab0811775547458c7546b85d37b365574e6cd574d9f137d72d6674fc327
font_02_sfnt_off000114b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114B9 18092 bytes
SHA-256: a40e108252e8efb4fc49e5c2f10099506c9bb50668379ae71a896de26987825c