Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d380c532b16c536…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-07-06 15:51:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1530e5d233da3bd1438ccae324234578 SHA-1: 632f418a647830941d9a5b5c525f0de22831322d SHA-256: 9d380c532b16c536e61a26469b778ab088eb58e599b4d715f305cd20a71c5089
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. 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 links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=happy+birthday+to+my+mother+letter
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac02b7176bf---66782313624.pdf
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a370e790e2171339534274bcc0a5f286/demubonufuzasozuvefitu.pdf
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6adb0816f2---69015647296.pdf
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc2230a0da---86018806829.pdf
    • http://anneadamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tolatuxef.pdf
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097e50829685---kemubofowisunitujimefi.pdf
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/94347415902.pdf
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhkg1g6lg2t0d0nma3je558j0v/nebulutavezuzexo.pdf
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfd048b9c9d---73383059422.pdf
    • http://hengtaixin.com/HangShun/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79292168292.pdf
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/defufejo.pdf
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/pebisa.pdf
    • http://innovad-ltd.com/userfiles/file/63518647326.pdf
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4277a0c9ef---58137968522.pdf
    • https://phr4u.com/files/69513867981.pdf
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/30230634135.pdf
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8d77ecb3be---galapilunat.pdf
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfca9a07e00---80134753980.pdf
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78fc3a97f997c53e9595ca7a78f32aba/lusitelulumuloweze.pdf
    • https://camgloberealtor.com/userfiles/file/buzoxaged.pdf
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78fa4ed8976e06617de95e3bebe6abc0/57190398132.pdf
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/35155370957.pdf
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/supabigazijiso.pdf
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf736280562---mesasoxunubabididiko.pdf
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9a75c2a52a015dae4df73e29e8816fc/bofatorarurazupojosud.pdf
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32kvrfn0942sl3ds52norlau5b/guvukajitifugedumux.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_off0000df64.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF64 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f776.bin
02aff8f20831ea628b50ed28ff4a8b5adb1ed5852189cc78b2f25e5f0b959a1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF776 17172 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000123ad.bin
7588b2f032bb1029bd071692aa9f52cb9060ee33bcce6acbc431a9f01ae0f452
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123AD 10632 bytes