Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1e501482c7b45be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:34:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 51a675cf0c7156cb0ff458ac1c0c7552 SHA-1: cfda85179a285ac9511dee280fc52c8fc1c3eb6b SHA-256: b1e501482c7b45be2cda8ccc6f6b15448b8a326a9cb093487f4d5e8a44c3c943
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to external sites, some hosted on compromised WordPress uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather for programmatic exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/bezavivividalewetegivapa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://malovanesklomh.cz/images/file/81257842981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grup-rul.ro/printuri-fi/files/75469862043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma-itc.ru/!upload/files/23127232102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokrowce-ochronne.pl/Upload/file/68766181041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fteq.ru/files/file/82589728755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132230b40409---sebuwijilukesor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americandeliorder.com/uploads/files/24661650636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdbm.vn/upload/files/taludaruxedudenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbrf.com/files/fckeditor/file/20759208406145d01d4fafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simbhaolipower.com/images/file/xiwipigisefagibosuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/35388432849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edusfera.pl/upload/file/77574452858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tischlerei-schlusche.de/sites/default/files/file/59573277186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tukigubofoguvazusab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://organicfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/4454241847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c599479a680d80e0c972cec02a02c989/3549662356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freebcard.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giwidalofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art4you.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/fijadozidigevitipezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deshpanday.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7890912726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/25058902825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/xofoxowizokajididedevumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a5e8b82fba---23140997186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-17/20210917203548235108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coaching-scolaire.net/userfiles/file/lufovetokejubinojexoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+video+play+faster+on+androidPDF 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_off0000cd83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD83 16752 bytes
SHA-256: e0071fcb1a506206be801153b5cdf4273d72f76dbaac95734339d6e92d031bb9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f896.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF896 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110AD 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 35f729afb8b54f79c618676c2e00a6b3a2d02db4e8bd12ba0b3e25a2f78b2ead