Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9796bfdd84bcd57e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:57:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 353820b076fcd6cd812cb24c1ca0469f SHA-1: 06ebce1c391e27ce0ef0a2c050d4e9f580635b1f SHA-256: 9796bfdd84bcd57e966dfe19409f9293f483bf0612caaa95746bfd4a82083b25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be1412c90e4d1a27480e5a2d31412d31/58304773199.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e95afe36ffcc8e8bf3c8a7f0ee1bb965/39737287513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.irrv.org/uploads/files/1070289023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambcavallon.eu/userfiles/files/fonulifujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b21807cc7c1771e3b14147d5224d610/95064760395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmbo5o5723mks646l8ep22ohh4/vufikudiravariwibevisob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekainternetowa.net/_mdm_apteki/file/87581330418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782e03ca715---zekanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3277a9b490fb2742da087b9ca7727d76/xolujagat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/wubaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44c43a7cb10ce1402a663eba23145fde/xuxozeluni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakotech.at/uploads/ckeditor/files/girazetodob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smcertificationservices.com/userfiles/files/lazatidoxosifubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6b02a7816---8293299052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/10565248542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anna-bel.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/berajovumixek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ff038f172---68075150638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0c1a2c0861---42133252583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f78aeabaf3c3c9fc6311b7ce3ab5baf8/9290603822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lk4elvs7pkedg175cvhaq627g2/ruvopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b631c4125a---11256220238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioituigiay.net/uploads/files/giluvamemosamijopusojiraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbe82167680783810e8bca60badc6e9b/1614935649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/73697741378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukat.dnsaktif.net/upload/files/51947536318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3b9c37807---tojatomilirexuladep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/zigusuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/6742212813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=two+arm+seated+dumbbell+extensionPDF 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_off0000e8d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E5 18216 bytes
SHA-256: f8874e14b65ce8041ab6bff13c9be534002bfebef7c7c15fa356a90778a65bae
font_02_sfnt_off0001300a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1300A 10800 bytes
SHA-256: f6c9f03fe628f7f344b8132ff5448f52ea0efe34c35b3209535fb27997ba4730