Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f5d11c9f8fe54bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:50:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2f8c558129910783386a9f508c455db0 SHA-1: 0e9ccbad0815b30f1791b781e67de777255cedaf SHA-256: 7f5d11c9f8fe54bb4c55f1ed52a2ec16264b7e8ad89d90508c836e28a6b4acf0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it's likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+know+if+you+should+text+him PDF link annotation
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/funomaxozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24736827040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/kagifasejovuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasymusic.it/userfiles/files/17893244406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocato-callegaro.it/public/file/37590272785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d0903a9bb95bc004afce077926f622f/negufodole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ed830f164---37678898601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f225jedpmrehmp6qgjs15ficlp/momesewavupeketejiwita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/juzarazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternsheep.by/app/upload/file/43874331729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/tokuditimeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec614466e4---46299522752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/ludosidozowogaravolupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a061874a3d0---12765416893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d84cb1f556a19f8f667440609991775/wopunoberuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5c2f4bbe2f4498384bc73d1cd9a3477/88354512547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a2187a0f8---7505379387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63b3578279---fipamujasobokapadapotubik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhpr1kjqii34duiro258g2bio6/83883386257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunridgecorp.com/uploads/files/202108241146457502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas2.com/contents//files/rojenuvexaralazosuvixufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5e90dfec9---9680534997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/mopiwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/63887356229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents//files/xadidikinumonubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnetimes.kr/upload/file///4809971534.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_off0000f3d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D9 17992 bytes
SHA-256: de39ca5ae91271d81913c846f2afe2f0dc36b811a4aeb401c62c43d6a0ad938e
font_01_sfnt_off0001220e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1220E 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 901f755593c4b0cb1601245eebb82e56697d20019af3833c2c7e4893818d5e49
font_02_sfnt_off00013aef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AEF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1