Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a7c546513e8033b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 06:07:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d23a10ef28dbc057f1871868b56d5804 SHA-1: 9b8caa8ca49186d01467a9f93520f320d5d53963 SHA-256: 6a7c546513e8033be22763fd68508d3ab018fc161764d5c8d3873b165d579a7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing content.

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 http://gugugroup.com/userfiles/90205736109.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/70586273002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/torisexoxogojowewoniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabini.it/userfiles/files/61309140163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304b8840b57---dekotamoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-17/20210917101531279518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65h00sc6mahdlga4vpvm06sofd/10490880550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjchenxing.com/filespath/files/20210908080038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/gexedilepazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plechotice.sk/tmp/file/fuzezimagubifubolupon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeanmarcrobion.fr/userfiles/file/widigonigilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210914020454908612963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artgallery.devctn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8839693310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huescalamagiaenfotos.com/userfiles/files/39966936502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myparrotfood.com/user_files/files/35168534710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vevo.keresztessyoptika.hu/elemek/file/96843309454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinetalk.jp/app/webroot/img/fckfiles/file/vewodavurarojejosenurum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karelo.com/uploads/File/tabiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zakuskymoser.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jemetoxase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinadesigndanang.vn/uploads/image/files/wowefuwilubigoruvupaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/maxegamivipegupari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef7b262988---pebosuvowemopikowikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balalajka.nu/media/voduzalevijipigivatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161306fb2dc26c---sorebuwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/bufofurupamuxarul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=new+film+tom+and+jerryPDF link annotation
    • http://www.thaiticketmajor.com/static/imgUpload/files/nikukukixepitenavekejodu.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e82c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE82C 18604 bytes
SHA-256: cb945f4878306fa120366a3ca042b2302e4aaca31cb375cf83e86eafa7347eda
font_01_sfnt_off00011829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11829 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013040.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13040 10652 bytes
SHA-256: c3042df3c0c00cc1319581f4a1ac056a48b6c99e35f9ccc46717e5e3f878f8a7