Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5060e377c6ff5aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.1 KB Created: 2021-08-22 03:24:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 36e33a2a93df69c01414a81b8441643f SHA-1: 61c7129a05cdff2fb9691f8faf055e968305d52a SHA-256: b5060e377c6ff5aad43ab7c09c2225451f6deec49e0f98988f2bd05c7acd3817
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/84393794202.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a33eec12d8---razifatuwapija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2092c4b9db935997df2f192ba436b87f/54298559497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/penik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5321d60851def71fb4942874c510010c/vomimanapalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents//files/82748288264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vvpta-irvine.org/userfiles/file/37981384405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73db9b69d64e47202e697f32a05fd5b9/73987817107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/zafiwenigituvoxokosenif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210803051121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079304f42285---purad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/63769546701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m51ffk4j2hs8dcubojmid12f0k/61674270719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e64546414f3eb724df0c956accf271d7/40412895655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b84958ca8573117b73c640d407c9aab/48353436610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beatmuellerfoto.ch/userfiles/files/kipenititivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gndpta.eu/news_objects/files/40383473114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yer-krasnodar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4958971133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cijrvjskbguf1l0pev6t28f7uc/88921922054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tokyomagic.jp/images/library/File/vimikazipusulararufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/lekozutenaximudujepun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/zavuwewogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b547af1a5ce---44959140341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuresi-kaitori.com/upload/content_pic/files/19512360137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=dc+legends+of+tomorrow+season+3+episodesPDF 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_off00017ddb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17DDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000195ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x195ED 18144 bytes
SHA-256: 395d05d316353ccbe9859bbf9f3a5a56c3d2905146e9b6f2a1b180b6a26d3737
font_02_sfnt_off0001c528.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C528 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 5b91232199f1f056f46d68c1214f97e785d1e0c9bcb4ac5633cf3b93cae0dd48