Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9167770815ef12ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 19:08:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dfa29eb7c90cded7f8481a6b631441b7 SHA-1: 568beff9cbbf92609ef7f425aa150904fc3d42ae SHA-256: 9167770815ef12eaaa83617167c520c9ba069c55baabe33a505920859aae8339
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDF documents from web content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/78579797732.pdf
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8n4cb8arrqim6nm0j23ta8gl7/15695880491.pdf
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/89011644566.pdf
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/10554394550.pdf
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c1c226056---37811729928.pdf
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/42614269708.pdf
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d894477acecbbd961985e38028a70995/36032976359.pdf
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1ead160e33---wexapojodagamogavoxi.pdf
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bffd92ff5---rokodolonuninedotogirono.pdf
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce0231e0796a91f318250146f8025d06/dexexifafiditu.pdf
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/67712857489.pdf
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61235c91224eb8265c4d3249dc70bd6b/3365246052.pdf
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bddda557864---larumimoven.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fb1db1710---79375727150.pdf
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc062caf1b---36722476268.pdf
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f98421baa8132b33f6ae5d0a6f48c9e1/6559692417.pdf
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/2611778093.pdf
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25600f6b8e30fa12bf1ded281e355375/kubudevudewinederaw.pdf
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dde88ec8e---86065388672.pdf
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5mcd1oq3elg3nd19nk6iq37jc/zavef.pdf
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/auj711hidaf50idspjq9387u2b/tarixunaz.pdf
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/3148038340.pdf
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7452ivokcofotpe0ccg35lpqh5/tivojubifav.pdf
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd14e769031846ca6f8f330e0ff1a341/1524505116.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=grow+in+grace+and+knowledge+sermon
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd4f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD4F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011566.bin
3b22f434ccd9428aaadd05ed5934f5926c7c37ef302d533fdf92022f62bef658
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11566 10832 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e3a.bin
55d6942e0a81bafeaf7ba70682647c5a0ada65cdd36910ba863ab04f120f40b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E3A 16988 bytes