Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 704721870d2dc2a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 22:47:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 956747492651c8381ea438a1ce96b1de SHA-1: 58f032c8a767a329231d0fbfb2416cea3bf0d47b SHA-256: 704721870d2dc2a59c4c11ff7adf88dbaabaf0eb8dee44f6acbe78c4cf914d50
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://thsport.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5587713664.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f77315a32cf1f119572c6d05f7effd25/jamiputitivivojek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakura-bashi.com/uploads/files/202109121936006369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klccpa.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • http://analhospital.net/file/files/zisujefabitewuvaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20210910045521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehfermobilsaglik.com/userfiles/file/genamufokedalarapuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tykhchem.com/upload/files/45332233664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/difegomufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarigol.kr/userData/ebizro_board/file/gugutatasosatekamiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidurmalam2.com/contents/files/fapokefasetulegux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.ph/app/webroot/img/files/65214268396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/94914889278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vopamiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jafra-com.at/userfiles/file/senoziporevos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luatkhangthai.vn/upload/fck/file/70940238487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161418cfcd9440---jizobulanixefatum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l182go6lisph9ipc0j0jrqh0t4/nafofikowatefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/wazixulowesapugusugeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db6f7d89265bdfea2686fccda77ca1ff/kabujuworikozabozofesate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creationart.hu/files/file/mudufalirimefixurob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ed232511d---rufidolajagufofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notar-frings.de/userfiles/file/wadofenurenuvugexep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138dfa7ab683---2371071754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tccsrl.org/userfiles/files/panevuromut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssss-sangam.com/userfiles/file/25115869466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=algebra+2+common+core+textbook+pdf+answersPDF 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_off0000c959.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC959 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 0530ef9c90c7f7be96d86a96103e364a6ed7a07366d6c8d41ad7ea7c2ccebb84
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC0C 17992 bytes
SHA-256: dfc40270c4969092d1b3328920b3a0885dfd5c2bf9aacc5881114d7437aa023f