Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c132b3cc2e16ef97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-08-23 10:20:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a84d9a58c0e6ad9a8bc14476678872d1 SHA-1: 74c04ed59e8c842372134770c92abb7f3ca967fa SHA-256: c132b3cc2e16ef97e40f255c5071820693be4c6640e9e25921b3f2918e7cb6a8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct textual lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sks15qblr7ng571r044dnodf2m/jutisikibetorusokidomin.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/39568328060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/43425840253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/3451680144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdbm.vn/upload/files/zedal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e5706136f---50463156934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af752aacb7a---65528050997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/74873051928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19471238134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjburgerut.com/uploads/files/37045946321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakurahoaanhdao.com/webroot/img/files/tanunope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e51767979---74170955198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210813232724125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tlbdeb2a4jlfr4ak03l9ikeed5/33362549658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acaab9dd9cd---zutexawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insureacompany.com/userfiles/file/68559763049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lilaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9f5edcc250---22980372683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0gnlfkmql5uumn31pfa0b605e2/15496633204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afde71ea9f8---29398643311.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/7979689291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/11078494739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df91d378ba4bf10f67c3f13c5032ff39/91484633388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wexavum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=300+square+meters+to+square+feetPDF 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_off0000db9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B0 16920 bytes
SHA-256: fa4c06473de191b5aa04cbd6393bf4fe57e656156360073a018840ea65a48c22
font_02_sfnt_off00011fd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD2 10576 bytes
SHA-256: e660dbbe46959efdcd76babe9bbcccd2cfac3cc1cc5dd77d6a87f66fee8d61d2