Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0e7ac5dea66b9b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:00:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 11d12bac4daea7a4c9911022d3db2a47 SHA-1: 619b0ffac04cbdb3dbd6d2c269711a506490a71f SHA-256: c0e7ac5dea66b9b49e1957ced74c4521fc7ffeea179a7a8885a3435ead3b6bf0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather to host links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/4423701095.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bb62096b1c---696847054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lahma.pl/_u/userfiles/file/wasazopewadapamixobive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/60827680888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqq59g9rhq2nuacbfllfco7oju/31667180450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camgloberealtor.com/userfiles/file/34929636598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d307d6c72---6411939762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712e205e66d---51724749628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161217f3011a69---fomovurasevomaguku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793b73f0773---71961829021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taborcapitalpayment.com/clients/d/d0/d0a3925ee25d0adc8806453b18bccccc/File/nufekidefumoxurej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611681bf984ea---98603493473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/62658368479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hftyby.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-26/20210826070448108697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/wumidafinibitazudawipasep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/58317600692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaloffice.pl/fotki/file/fovitavozizaladipotureb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbvshungviet.com/upload/files/loponinatodibokuluxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citrasas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63276511286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2da112e0cf---66159489085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a63394723---93018080976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daf5ced8d434cd6955bd605b264f9521/10358533478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d11bae706f---2072909929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=mappa+tram+milano+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_off0000da67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA67 10352 bytes
SHA-256: bbead78d78a8c1dee48637a69c0e0664b71a8e5b6cf00686aabee2f368a71e02
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A5 18488 bytes
SHA-256: 811d1c263f01da249790a41ba5ad9920c00a05b6573a9643f27d48f591191a60
font_02_sfnt_off0001211b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1211B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1