Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9743e14be46c9d08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 21:44:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a5972427aae389f070a1af4a652abf20 SHA-1: 9590a208583fa7694a3b49dd60e5a130ebd6e1e5 SHA-256: 9743e14be46c9d082c96882fa63c132d3db6656ce0b6f971dd59a2287415b608
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to lure victims to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a vehicle for these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+exponential+function+and+logarithmic+function
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dfc11aa5bb3b908dc51ae61a211acf9/87721871705.pdf
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086930693af4---rajagotonelizatubupim.pdf
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49d98adc85dd74309cea7672d06dbd2a/99909923813.pdf
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bae6ee436---61574650501.pdf
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/11829023601.pdf
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5svqjh5pkco3kjj5t04jg77as/77574852059.pdf
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f04820b8d031cf9a8f4767f154a3531/60234037615.pdf
    • http://thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/18401444062.pdf
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/60036490923.pdf
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949f8253bf1---47195597948.pdf
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/76431638336.pdf
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f42bda75fb---31833468341.pdf
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/xogozariguzomofagili.pdf
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bb55b7df7---67480260631.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4v2l044iuhvcnctoan2g8p500/91210508022.pdf
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b1c69e245fb7073cab64af96db16e65/zajajuvezufokosinosavi.pdf
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54a3b367e46fd36ee6a506170bdaa759/2260549766.pdf
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/gadez.pdf
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c399abf9e---26869125982.pdf
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/trnqn5oj6b7v0kb8rmtokjpoqp/lidafufijifunije.pdf
    • https://elitstroycraft.ru/source/file/funole.pdf
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/25865467412.pdf
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/97140187783.pdf
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/36171350464.pdf
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/837a2b623dc552e8fb7994fee15ebd2d/sopazodimologozumazati.pdf
    • 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_off0000e7a5.bin
f27c5d542a580d293727139433ee2dba30b99269d94bb7b102bfc37ac903d0b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A5 16876 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000113ee.bin
3ffef50546c0cfed7818375649d986f15e99ec873f60b9fc969c57cb473c8c44
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113EE 11328 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e04.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E04 16792 bytes