Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4765255605f79f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:08:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 94f0023df60044b73add0c3b30dff181 SHA-1: f9de84088878cec5a41e5c839838e668cd4105a1 SHA-256: b4765255605f79f0197bdfa29276bbde07125103db2fc524e130afa39a311153
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload sites and other disposable hosting domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's a container for malicious links rather than user-facing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://krono-original.vn/Images_upload/files/15349376870.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/681ec950e3c5638d7e4dab5bf686a3c0/xexupisekadaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shesob.com/file/files/bodidivepugilitemojana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62644870df83201caf34224528dba1a7/tasopijifuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160afe4550f4c3---daxugikubafafibimizowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aa0e49ae7695f6ae8dba5c3087a4963/zurigusapedijivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwardiajuvenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/bipatebufasonikezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117308c0e81d---28043716198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bujemulexonapigovozowavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cad09925e5---kawebexewomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d65410c7d0---87473258686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/latuxizikelofunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb3578e169---vebosulexemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlytech-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/43285609361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65003773703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b479206d4f1---wilibuwutexobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/34356629848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esicm-old.org/admin/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bovozawopesarimizezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608038bfb053b---32803596666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjandjunemillerfarm.com/clients/75830/File/12916549531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yam-token.com/business_school/uploads/file/50405521577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/julukikisikenakavozesex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhjv8n8amlfng7m1d5iab143u3/nukomutez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca1f8821d7---zogopusexapibuxunoxugalem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/rotibeliworomugebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=krita+shortcuts+pdfPDF 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_off0000cfb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7C8 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 798a0588995c0b6bda7030d50a79b80bf99824125d7dacd62c577a96d841c553
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffe0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE0 18196 bytes
SHA-256: e852e2fd5784b6b21baf0d0f70f0ba2e4f43cf5c8b84ad29998d2b76aa87c5a2