Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c878bbe19084e32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-06-15 16:16:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f02c9ade4ef94bab9978c63ccdc34687 SHA-1: f870c6a492a981a557f084a0dde1c9c9e81b6e83 SHA-256: 9c878bbe19084e32c2465445ca204e6a36142d7f9716842ac624c1d89ab5882a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a date, but no direct instructions or lures are discernible. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+station+19+free+online PDF link annotation
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/tofobiwewizipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/37994179266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9ae0365ac7b8dafcf7fbeeccbdbfa74/dozalatudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luvnchrlysenglishtoys.com/clients/861429/File/bafejerimuwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/734f2e0257959d1478a71de2bdd29a6e/woxawizowanenumurufanunik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/866f53ac4ab514bf1b94a12096f2b7e0/bulozibokotijamodogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7vplilbuu8pugcf49uju2ja56/bevivuwotefaxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c794bfd37f1b18ad690fead647e2fc9/5960413375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c26b20333a---39484715796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/63875646256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce34a22230---20322257496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811106030f4---vadogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed1c8e6ac0---guzadepudijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092fbe7790a1---sewutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ab72147a9---bowugegatevoxitijokim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80eeb14b8bd71d82ad93ae85d1cc869c/13051921698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d1d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1D2 5188 bytes
SHA-256: aa5d3460ed8e5b69daa1cc9684f0191be158f8f47c88950cc92b03001d004be4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE386 9924 bytes
SHA-256: 50d48ca07a8cedfbb31c9f8e886b4f8bf359409fa2fa347b4d57749857192156