Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9005fe455d65f4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-06-11 06:51:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c760b6a47bc82668d87fc8d43c30aa48 SHA-1: 8a1897a1d491d8da57f569fd4eda59f85654839e SHA-256: a9005fe455d65f4ec600ad390b114e6873d082f0c3a98785ff21b062d95bc3c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Simpsons tapped out free donuts cheat' and 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating a lure for users seeking game cheats. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=simpsons+tapped+out+free+donuts+cheat PDF link annotation
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7os4on34kqnce6k13p689f2r59/zigewekunem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/19547181900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d5tt1571ec7mjuaoi0oarlmq9/pekeratefometago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2c2e63ba7728c44e35e97f02cc2acf4/genevogawolowoxeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a6fa55561a0193db95d1295fa5a5b85/sebafifexetazap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/2436276476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7b9aeb034---pubesane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/tapitupamavodotojabeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/85055104289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d485d3508f5c65875afbd93db462e144/rinowazasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ced36ca05---mapavibas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f32d196bd8---44548860412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dffbe8c19715f6df3af0ef9a742949d8/gotasobejotetifiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3846dfc277a8fe2764ce250805352edb/74537188934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/73451952818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8531ba98527db064216519ddd2896ba5/30555915809.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_off0000edf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDF7 5464 bytes
SHA-256: a35aa0386cca1da6c3dc86c82d8120db3a7df63a13c6e96b7ed2bb9749973d28
font_01_sfnt_off00010062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10062 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 2d1a852b9609be2b80cdd377f2255131aba01a091d60c3d6a157aedc76d63c3a