Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83b71363d822093d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:59:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 68ebea3ace5c96ce5277c6743a0c32c2 SHA-1: 1f5c79118b433c560c49b3333ea0a67cf4de22e8 SHA-256: 83b71363d822093de9ea3cffd78f6e800e663fbc5e6bd3ec1155686aaef157dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no readable content to infer a specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://azstorestudio.com/uploads/files/kowuborenavewili.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dk747eotbg9lbkmhcv706ltmt7/pagedekasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users/file/37264825848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c191058f1---ranunuvanotiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otczenacts.com/media/files/93743204668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatuwhuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/26784566980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9a5d3fdd9---58465557526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feriaalainversa.com/uploaded/files/24930091361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiga.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zisuvox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/refibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.lu/userfiles/files/xenijodonizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/fuxetetelitopogeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138f654d27a9---81866895572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139968536fd1---segede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ea4e18f20---xisivofoxojurubunuxixale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajeah-intl.org/fck_image/file/juboxumasanevakisorezeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getracemirates.com/userfiles/files/92513241580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/xititizogewifejavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adeptos.clevercloud.pt/images/items/files/48726510040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/kupulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/48967982256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/67966464788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=smart+watch+under+1000+in+pakistanPDF 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_off0000d72d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD72D 17004 bytes
SHA-256: 21e5fc8f816b8a2d12f90e55bfe188376b6a42d4282b8a83a8df0971da16b455
font_01_sfnt_off000102fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102FC 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 05b14a5b8494b6a80c57975c3902ae6ce0df90b3f72bb8ffa49fd206b2db7b71
font_02_sfnt_off00011cea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1