Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b415f7a75b237f6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-06-17 20:05:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8fb5e525b9067d0daf1b15731b234694 SHA-1: ce4eb29e8559bd87a4958cf72287ddfdc62c4234 SHA-256: b415f7a75b237f6d36d57da951d2591ad5513daee5457cc49c3342ee0e34a5d7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' lure and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a date, but no direct instructions or lures are discernible from the readable text.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aptis+practice+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://taxiporec.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33975dl8smb9ds9lj5lkkg7102/semofisas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/27542593041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cdebb7eba3---42977229825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aks6uf2kmfmhu78l5tctiq755/ruxujes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluidearthconcrete.com/userfiles/file/32704804092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7de9e75dbfa63dd83a12a8beb5e8471/kurutenusifadebelodimujof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pdvvvma8rvtvd905rle34837p5/dukazufipilavodimatipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e38a01b14---40378215998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iapi6vmgt4pkvul86kelml9ln8/bomikipumipekejegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a499894ed86---ruliwixamupobofusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c64ad7d8c4e---lopali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7447dadffba224084a51848ced5d02c5/felanobanege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6286cc44c0fb2f7359c9292f7c461663/94174486424.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_off0000e135.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE135 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 7208c6718c15344e881da0748ab910e9a18543594bbc485af0e2dabe8c6c8cc0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f34c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF34C 12084 bytes
SHA-256: f50c001f0175b7d57026cd0f1db2f724f902a3e2c29bf9d4cfc5611ec737fd17