Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e52174d5f904787…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 09:20:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f1607ec3369c48ca080913ed51ca15d0 SHA-1: 457d27fe25e9fccdcdc2b24b0f2069d6629046b3 SHA-256: 9e52174d5f90478747c34abad9a19c407093e0177f7d7c8e9d7548b94f3ae7fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users 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 container for these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://hhs63.org/clients/8/88/88ec95b665b56da82b1de85f097fba10/File/63275920452.pdf
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7e2f3522a---81856901420.pdf
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d376ae4abdf---kibugoxageza.pdf
    • http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/loxirumera.pdf
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3b9f50534---65438471333.pdf
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791d412bcc6---77376232994.pdf
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d91b51b541---3636588496.pdf
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11c51309ae---98607479973.pdf
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608924a6af840---wedebaxegiwabe.pdf
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/dozikuronamiz.pdf
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0941a328df1ab3210986bdd657f32faa/gatiboduvofere.pdf
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jfmhpp5jt1vimjs7mhu4msabqo/2709634978.pdf
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lq86lcev9d5neas7j29ditglc2/52405970160.pdf
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/968996a4d6028773fc319a34423b6a12/1441000180.pdf
    • http://gld-lining.com/user_img/files/jexuwo.pdf
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/55675943494.pdf
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/vivevojegesogoguzadubuna.pdf
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098cd2c59fea---22754536926.pdf
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d0391c977---watij.pdf
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/251903b8cfd14248b160b850ebad13dd/babotofadejep.pdf
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31d2aaa007273685524aa6ed14b58071/zafibef.pdf
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/63966622510.pdf
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/75536766738.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e51cbce643---dupuke.pdf
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d95f540739ad25c84694905cfc8b6600/62575696677.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=digital+communication+systems+by+sanjay+sharma+pdf+free+download
    • 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_off0000ea27.bin
74e279aaa687c9cb50b184e494ac24beabe5bde519c79822b54434b458fbd85f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA27 17144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011703.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11703 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f1a.bin
1554c77285cef97669a6725633a62ff1b6aa9c50d6603e3ac87bdeeccd9c7407
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F1A 11640 bytes