Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91757b5165cfa109…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:19:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d1959efcd02ad1a046eebd9d22f2ca26 SHA-1: 8ca0290285dcf33d914fc2447d2240c3c5e62c70 SHA-256: 91757b5165cfa109eb146c7c7ef26f679a852d0da946a25f5677420d11ed570e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or link farms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking readable content to infer a specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://qwerty.pl/_data/file/71337641332.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/93415354509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saveursetsavoirs.fr/image/file/kovamijibewevaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platypusspot.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dumitezofanukelanuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc1c4ca69a---libopobuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robedecreateur.com/img/files/64864025800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5be95a28d---54423185182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210617074702188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2013.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78402194500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronospan-mofa-hungary.hu/editor_up/nasuxenuwerinuvasegaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddhaart.in/userfiles/file/werigurilirojilewibevode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/426387ef544229a59acdc964e7841051/tibaxilomijosavulosewixeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02f0eef950---wuzarujurip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e49429c5c767c153e931696595e150e0/loxekixasefunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da3dc27d6c1575042c440517ec56dd1d/16294147129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46671949821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/rutepupawemulomerukedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774a46b2874---sofimodasezaxeweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sharise.net/Uploadfiles/files/tigumepupixejukasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcot.org/userfiles/file/migokufosejiriwubuxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/909b94674cc648cad2ec7439f8ce08f9/sakabazeniwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defi128.com/userfiles/files/68123637119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe80c612a8b5bed2af4e27f5794ee974/jokilodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=carbon+steel+pipe+weight+chart+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd98bd9f4be---82947703191.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_off0000dd2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD2F 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 2fd896fbfc01bcf1d5655d941cfc8f393498789551c872d13d157b910ee96a8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ef0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF0 17936 bytes
SHA-256: b712c68b86a176d27096f9d1032ae7859805ed66ab1485c2fb93b7d1889e8130