Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 860861ea3f362607…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 21:18:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 83f54aeca2830af5424c1e49bd45da5c SHA-1: 79fe38f66b84f59d9058d07a596401c712634022 SHA-256: 860861ea3f362607a68bec8358e0fe04634deb6b99642c300e8f102986094632
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Static analysis reveals it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS uploads. 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 0.9918

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/zukinuvejivusawug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608846cfd7dcd---divam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/rufifetumarojesawijakowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amcj3pi7qhkl4m2a4uqek2gi75/pavorotosozutajerot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30c24472f1---jimamepazinekixatopiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namratalakhotia.com/userfiles/files/94894887810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/mutalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/5582059723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gksk18pk2u23fj5kb2ihmpbr4/wesafosijisejazitaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloria-eurex.com/20164790143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e945c5f36---24815152236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6778ab5a800b32b48d5a4a12653420b7/powavomifirafigojizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18107781222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/kevebamagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6afg7ag7ff5htl3g82gms23hf/19335636437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1918c813a---60164591059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c776a20d7a---rapewovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd2424a263---9265486560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/768c23bc4a529927cde77a5489196c16/36008653289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d671646f0e4e23712f732f9f164e8662/melulijoforujikigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bda4956f1c08c51ddd0c3838a8456c66/kevobibufogazokik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a2e6b7eced097085c35fec106e75329/pakolazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/44105801140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ljlconst.com/admin/images/file/43846616317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=intercessions+for+complinePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ffc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000117dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117DD 10428 bytes
SHA-256: ad26b27b44f14e8239ad5df0fa49d39a8cb8e9262d2025e586fa021ea87bdaa2
font_02_sfnt_off00012f7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F7A 17020 bytes
SHA-256: 938551d21bed151ba318159a3b02fc3e0fa0b49a9663df95588d9f3039a057c0
font_03_sfnt_off00015bad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BAD 16288 bytes
SHA-256: 76e27e971acd5e8261603bb2a5ebc25731684cc352b678b8d07084b7faa11af4