Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9466e1c8bd6d4cad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-25 03:30:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cc77846705917332846efd4efec01761 SHA-1: 9e75ed1a520f6cb5c6beceb25dfd20198d930489 SHA-256: 9466e1c8bd6d4cad882c66263b38c043884f1fb58d61bd58a99df6654671fa81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed 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 to analyze.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/56147732918.pdf
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/22165892319.pdf
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/jajuze.pdf
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/66023056961.pdf
    • http://www.keizerco.nl/userFiles/file/lokufimuwanelada.pdf
    • https://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/
    • http://maekuangudomthara.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kekisutojola.pdf
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/suwazuraxex.pdf
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/89336778242.pdf
    • https://santechnikosdarbai.lt/images/files/66836391847.pdf
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tcs3g5n9habachuffm7v8ujja3/23455301591.pdf
    • http://moscowprice.com/content/xuploadimages/file/tajobaf.pdf
    • http://lauraestetica.com/userfiles/files/wefamonoreduku.pdf
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/87396917851.pdf
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/zovip.pdf
    • http://hsaltsj.com/uploads/files/12112155888.pdf
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/55834661659.pdf
    • https://twinslock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2774231828.pdf
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/dedaduw.pdf
    • http://wonsakai.com/uploads/files/satajoropiremoniloderile.pdf
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a000cc84bb---55494924122.pdf
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/dategutopovudugifasanutis.pdf
    • https://aannemingsbedrijfbarthulsbosch.nl/userfiles/file/84746496109.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1f3de8779---xabekiri.pdf
    • https://careerexpo.alljobsinliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boponejenejesusikamodi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=angry+birds+dice+play+store
    • 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_off0000b36d.bin
3832434edc972925fe36eaae471bef9cdf15ba25f4943d6f320ef63fae412746
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB36D 16192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcbd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCBD 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4d4.bin
f98e88c5d87284593a3a9bb5cf1686ed3c55f3de15ffca5897a7d2c7c4ca2989
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D4 10924 bytes