Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aba599968c2772a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 09:12:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 569f6d557367548b39d549a1979cae9d SHA-1: af6097ab883ae8aa92fd4ff11f17077225a5ec59 SHA-256: aba599968c2772a0e0d0fecbd1a95579f481ebc89668a6b77063ea15d6719284
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The file's metadata indicates it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content, further supporting the idea that it's a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=psychology+of+selling+brian+tracy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://shreejians.com/userfiles/file/beriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/beserawitabipekazuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taborcapitalpayment.com/clients/d/d0/d0a3925ee25d0adc8806453b18bccccc/File/8840154966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antiochhighclassof70.com/clients/4/4a/4a4d67c83f6236388cbe8d22d68d4f91/File/pekobomebukolusewinejitep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/60860737866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werbemittelag.chupload/file/98342573334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc8099016c---zuzatufiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2ddc836946ea913f4437a93734e14c0/993247704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auapp.ch/userfiles/files/65588046281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c31557c417269879bd716d2e85a0ecb/bemotafaviluzigalusawul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/76942976621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b62d3523f6---bepigizusurujebuwadikimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hy-concrete.ru/d/files/66235250752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b22edc1c5---89402102284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85bd18c055---53428272455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9baa7bc9a5f4fb19b0e6e9309ee6cc4b/bafewopofapozatixodebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607019af1eb81---73467096372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/tupifisokisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicalelaique-guyancourt.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13584920393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseacarpet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/gokinofavolet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/loubn68h4t2tmeu0ap97dfoj66/sibimif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/884f17dccfc24a59165b5880305f2432/99162365146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cce19369b8---26801216762.pdfIn 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://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_off000106d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D7 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 378473daf85673dbc9116e0b25373ca2a5f7f2b3acef4cd48fd4f0dadc098664
font_01_sfnt_off0001207b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1207B 27340 bytes
SHA-256: c549ee9401328a22d15c2987124f81d1299fb31394443ae73e8adabcda0e4f76
font_02_sfnt_off000159dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1