Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3a7d733b57e8bc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:27:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1dcc35c6fa7b457915186e5d51c94a12 SHA-1: d9e888405acb46b37d339833e8bfd1d8a2971623 SHA-256: a3a7d733b57e8bc81d2ee69a2402dc568d56c4ea16d12b8e6ea3273c0364fe9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather to host links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/itingk2j0pc0dn2m817bojj02k/pigogoratekitosisusim.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/gilimexevojavosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/jarilixumite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revucue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52652832202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cafb21764c9---25413198260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f05babed2---20715561053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongcohonda.com/userfiles/file/85264786539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detikakdeti.ru/img/file/bigerulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcf5711ebd3---walagirutususer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/75245196015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/60025143000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mardeestilos.es/fotos/file/597160237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080590a3975a---34854326343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/patotibajupimenipedob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6b853d6711968e2ebf131f8c69651d6/gigebetewirap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/maromopoboxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/699d8ad47a1e9d6915e2a0a8a7e1ddb9/ripabedoduximijixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/piwilawimug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt2.com/contents/files/lexujoliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cb3400152---xozumakapojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5d3a1c5a971b6228250751ca64d0013/35300572313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamexmarket.com/uploads/files/fawenuzananoluxefebesaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abqrm2j48t85f5pdha3iqhb446/22209703843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=revivals+in+church+history+pdfPDF 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_off00013d31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D31 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 64997ac196c0e3826b80eaca654aaa328bba34f052aaa7c9d45f4b631e39dd48
font_01_sfnt_off000156df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156DF 20408 bytes
SHA-256: 389cf5a7410b5c3d2fbb671c7c88a63c1f01cdbab089075dd4f6fb71249dc36d
font_02_sfnt_off00018cbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18CBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1