Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a2c133cc353f9a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-06-10 04:54:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2586f31f733a4ea9725235e7627f94ee SHA-1: 2277a1d761771797d83fc63de2613387662c56b6 SHA-256: 6a2c133cc353f9a38d7a2ecb1ab14a3d4c0e70194c0a18609f1c2b33d069d669
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of 'wkhtmltopdf' in the metadata and the nature of the URLs indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=siedd+back+to+you+mp3+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b748a472f4fbe9bcf6e287fd3d7aed67/65042704750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h98lcqhbetcer3k7628od94or2/mojabapelamusitenove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c176169ae898452a1accb43ac1c2086/30943366249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/631fe0f77c1192c61f701e4182dfab62/wojora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/sugalujajajutileki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qm99hp3mch246lv9hs8rlihps2/43666859990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fv62avgfeh53cmd5ab5d4rrlcp/1429350181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070094219661---fozovofeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/72629119947.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d41bca37e9c8fe2824546689d56e0ce5/mebasaroxorunafadetedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/bejetetavisis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/wipewinitoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/5299642357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609300cbea014---4361261840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garyjetcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a537288ab08c6d47ffc39e67000c206/zajagiridegagavapugojezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba96c52acc7---funomafoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.comIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000edde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDE 5788 bytes
SHA-256: 237d929705a3d45e612d2ea7fcf54920c095f0b01f7eccb5ff59274a04e004df
font_01_sfnt_off0001019f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019F 11888 bytes
SHA-256: ca917f78f1ffba4de2188db7ede7fea014b7f26436c76be589d3ad841882a929
font_02_sfnt_off00012977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12977 17452 bytes
SHA-256: aaa737efeb80a5542fdb9c6f15d2059459bb30c55556220d16fb14a13e168f62