Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b334e2c5c2bef55e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 09:13:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6c0a3c9d0aaf6a8cadfe29d5ba31603a SHA-1: 099d6595ba545a1f1ec1244f284d1ee312a42ef2 SHA-256: b334e2c5c2bef55eaa3d869801797f7bfe14c9d097d36ee1f54e1de5e298bb00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain metadata from wkhtmltopdf, indicating it was likely generated programmatically rather than being a user-facing document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adopt+me+what+pets+are+worth PDF link annotation
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/39406383658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54pvbocni25f65v79fm5s536q5/39016910941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/10603523324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5cb4264c7---10951568982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/41447275148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b69ca67af34---83993088195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqileb5uarnubit1307r7fo1q4/luruzavexiput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/75678141667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d05fca561bb---61263366495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/94115573839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/936a19a6055c51270b2adeb27dfc6a03/12898981770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/44728809022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cc7d9f6fed0acd083d7cf56862a20dd/88690184884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9540736b4c24939c040e527db4b61c33/39138528016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/mafojupezefejisanosit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2320d5fa09---luditiwekivatode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/82888475030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumusjitu.com/contents//files/47741530170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siltherm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66829953735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23c6cb9f8e0f8719f5282bfbff32229f/renuredalopelejajigezibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079db84dab7a---17371077114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35162a42421454336ea6cb8dd844321/92244285900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/nodumafebaxodakokitukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc6034b13df---79588703934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/koxadaxudisinajuze.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_off00010886.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10886 10484 bytes
SHA-256: ad1af5a7a43310c68bfdc618993bff7830fb92174d4655bca8dc37978684d932
font_01_sfnt_off00012078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12078 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001388a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1388A 18040 bytes
SHA-256: 6d28e1a9c9c4326bdb537339116f0e907d79817f70213454f4d6ca9d32d6b754

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