Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b2b88afca3f2af6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-07-23 10:03:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 624ee2a647c05b1bd43db6f244a14273 SHA-1: f8ff18a482bbe4b3fb66417444911714b719c856 SHA-256: 8b2b88afca3f2af68ae59b935a4a5fef362a871f81fddead214cf652f65fd05c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple embedded URLs point to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing content but containing embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54782505315.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/60013088875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.ru/userfiles/file/80087508421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/kozagibexelofogifizoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b42fc65d0---kipukilotozopetowiloriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/sivararomorejekodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608825d399907---34377520107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48427279e9760268a3daad21ef202388/zadolupitavexukufebujozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulyaskantin.hu/uploads/frontend/files/71148126997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c6p3e410f5nijk1lhc8ogams4/57659573550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/rebemorakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungtdc.com/upload/files/34534532435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0cb96b8d1d00134e55b2630d6a94a91/37866706166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/sewazolososopade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/25969020633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/ledatoxisigasufuluroferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9glm9b0e14gvg9kl4hlo1rbab2/9550250641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46f6200e83ce3cac95643b764a803157/7544658777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/28988179211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdale66ersreunion.com/clients/c/c6/c679c52642bc64dd8629b98fb95ccc77/File/91909596226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b75f246bf8---99857126888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l037548209jdfotv1mjd29ilte/piwofisowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8db96e734---12458224180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e6525c211---sinarevodux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862d3ca77c3---37954856969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=1+lb+ribeye+nutrition+factsPDF 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_off0000ddfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f611.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF611 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 44d8391e985b843644d83c4ecdd89f55a3aa8c810e185dec17bde504edd3e7d4
font_02_sfnt_off00010e93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E93 16872 bytes
SHA-256: 71d2dbd3530d4ab12637d5e7a861f0f2f22ca5f86e984a1711cf399b904b45bb