Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c208c539cc74ab5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:07:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d3162dd037ba9e89cf256823dbabed47 SHA-1: 30c0198e5aff080e3934f191a258f501e76635e3 SHA-256: c208c539cc74ab5eb549ab3ece2c1faf1d86649a0bf330405ceafbdad26a5ddd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://thieumaunao.vn/workspace/develop/uploads/ck_upload/files/31051590045.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-5/20210705181635118897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/70138066516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f669cf9cc26dc769ae448ca9a39799c/ruxilutumonikawumon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48360d89d5ae8ea9db04c6ef08f41b76/sinilelomadebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inncredel.com/uploads/57797355250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c74f952b799---tujorikunomemisifagod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c0c500998---jiwivugix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/51915496717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5545702122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayinluatudong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/sabivonadatoxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/48334080296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2c99a99eacdd90a9c2e04db2f2d9c31/sebusexufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szerecsen.hu/editor_up/podoboketekezebanuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2978281147---soligajonanidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/rasegibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duquenne-moteurs.fr/webroot/upload/files/lirarimupojewer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6d4a5ecb117dab8422ce17bb379402f/degafuzomoguriweresenude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dream-mebel.com/pic/file/70121551540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieterheich.de/images/uploads/file/36250547734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906909aded8---jerazirukovalopagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853fff46b1f---52708725964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-orlandini.com/userfiles/files/55617532193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walker-doss.com/clients/4/45/450b4a4af5ff3f13851793278d9c7ef8/File/zefevavosurebivukubep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.org/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/56584288461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phamtrangia.com/upload/files/84207882669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=microsphere+review+article+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_off0000c8ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8BA 17032 bytes
SHA-256: a1e62ff8e87332dd92476889e87ae240a232f350b9eebe9200fc437a06fb2de5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010cd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CD7 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 1fc1a5798b206128c9f9c21c652717a28bd49b193f4ae41d29fd0ceeb9c53507