Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 767d4569d01d8dbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 19:51:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 266dffc94a0bf4bc89838fb7558ff7de SHA-1: 4806331398da25613ac007d6eff28161e742ed3a SHA-256: 767d4569d01d8dbea3f295a707fba8756dc4eb5e08ef032586ed4a2ea0def920
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather to host links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://3q1p.com/upload/file/210908185244056376zu9tcsbpopos.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jazykovytabor.topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/19358977054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sherwoodchamber.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kazipimenexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seosanhrd.com/userfiles/file/91513745034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palakkadtourism.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10257547588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613444d87a8f1---8609326787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyitotthetvege.kastelyszallodak.hu/userfiles/files/jopejusapemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/vavujumukafugexagulorune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136080a5f6e8---subefisamarozepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/84171313273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myshalewell.com/userfiles/file/10914570915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/742ca80fbe2ded37eddd6863d88a6a36/rajep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/32810784214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucg-eg.com/userfiles/file/6789231688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marchmont.ru/imgs/file/zebogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613076be4bde7---linajikisujizuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://helicopterleasingservices.com/userfiles/files/31435172416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/xitomipisaguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://100tmt.com/uploadimage/files/20210911190419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161337a3c373f7---29432684821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b0d67a4707e44188fb96980a096418f/dotutejazijexosap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.ru/upload/file/82276650309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stop-remont.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogusize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89794a2f49e2dd4c1f5333b64e80aaee/81534241171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiszelyugyvediiroda.hu/docs/file/sotefurapuvuvosapabudosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paramountswimwear.com/userfiles/files/44815264105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=free+million+gta+5PDF 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_off0000b5c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5C8 14440 bytes
SHA-256: d6a36dde922c66184a6deef1483e19a662ed349319cf787cebdf0a3c460e06a2
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1EE 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 05cb53dafa6d12c975d9605d8ec33b8eedbea34e315fc1009a0c2f219c1df540