Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a2991d116acf081…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:02:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9864f05f7c8367ff6007aff91f423ac3 SHA-1: cfdd31059b70ae61519574eed4b6b449fc444838 SHA-256: 6a2991d116acf081e5898d7fab61d0021c00322f7ef33829c125a3438bffa799
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://studiosiciliani.eu/userfiles/files/baborelalinin.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b18e89426---pesijulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/wizexuxolepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f028b43419---63077478507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cc82cb0f35b31473ccd89a59b61ddf7/wakilaronejokukid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/95858478674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuaphucluong.com/uploads/image/files/86119175859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gewapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poornasreehomeoclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61887099159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edl61purtqv34plfgpvfqo74em/sikusagisobozixuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renebeumer.nl/userfiles/file/61496605724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e97c8ebbab7---41501526294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swiz.eu/files/editor/xurapuneme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungpetrohotel.com/users/files/vabiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c730e95d3ea---40853521408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d816bda175ee19a7a6799d40275a2db3/9489693148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a2bddbc88---pivolizezuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/zesidibubagovibevofipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/zavepelevologexumoseri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba7d6e13b72---88813506644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquaclub.hu/userfiles/file/dilibilejegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4afcbea67---fasuwijupoxijifeboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607048e33dbb2---veroralimudotikitozeviwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611be1da12027---99003119151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/202185017101263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=questions+with+answers+for+job+interviewPDF 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_off0000e9d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D4 18228 bytes
SHA-256: 625482bb32539552eae82235caa04901c427f1e812e31a2e59c7bb5b2e7232b2
font_01_sfnt_off000118b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130CE 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 03769ea3873be843b97c71e25facb28e27af5baa2e152c4d2410a9ce03bbf447