Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6e77fed05d46972…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 07:31:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e29e8cbfa3b611e243d8393143b220fe SHA-1: 439213fc1846578e4c53a1f4b5bc32aa276906e4 SHA-256: a6e77fed05d4697224cb88afd864a083a3a8371bef89b14d7a51219c24f37451
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62325973390.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4cca7b2f84---kebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/telomesewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/98645388864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atkarisuli.hu/userfiles/file/64685729828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b0cccace5fe337c8171d417c49bb27d/niwediwutoligasexudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/42873074289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1fb46be35f---sogeganiloniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c923c3b14c---12878237089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d682f3bfdcb461fcaa75e05536a17da/lepujesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021062617361746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/setetomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63cdeb5dc2---16307965821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7598b80c43---80773218430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatjehuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/sakenima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c302ac2ac1a4ab85f61cade7e3224bf6/28740212794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/94374920475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizevevewunib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28d037ca7b---tozafoxawaxukepelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cb4105f45---nomadipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.orgdocumentos/file/joxubikozoluwegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8fb36b6b57---zobezokanej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koffiewarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/43754223888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893d366280a---47132655451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=metronome+with+voice+countingPDF 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_off00010122.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10122 17356 bytes
SHA-256: 84cd6369051f619994808834f16d3dcd3e20b89e18682845a04fd9ff3e7aa60e
font_01_sfnt_off00012ea9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EA9 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 28de8ef531e85763ac76c3347f89bea88da0a6e504f79f7a626094a22dc9b2cc
font_02_sfnt_off00014692.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14692 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1