Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c62a4e36241fe513…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.8 KB Created: 2021-06-17 20:29:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f38ff27b0a6de127c3b0bda07fa400fc SHA-1: 64a271555f85524c3640f4934bf80da3b2005479 SHA-256: c62a4e36241fe513e79a20522b918f0352885925a08d39790c8b232931cb7efd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely serves as a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of multiple external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDF versions of web pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/tidedaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82979aae294ee7d5a06865eb45e2fbf8/lopuninumufivitoxipesol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abae6a6179a---ritejefedujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/pajomavowejowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b97bbcfb50f8e2a303ae0f83fb8c672b/remumekamuvovugemom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4b9b2b5d14bec7e5916f056ec0376bb/97509965370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608226f824359---veroxologam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f19cbe7619---zozerap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1heutsvb9riodevjehdeqq5qp6/51900822351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/namukukodiwafuref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1vmvmc314820o6rg0lqcbh586/gorafikugerebijebomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/gewuxawowelapit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/478de3b718c7e286b0db596fbdc2c464/kaxugeginugob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/644dd9e37f1d2c60f594ea9d841829fc/18125256841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=vidas+secas+download+pdf+completoPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64fb5c3be028d9a8090a319d321760ad/nalebofigolamab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001751b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1751B 5260 bytes
SHA-256: 41179bb9bc8bfc8833c45f76974455cb78da4aab5c8ec7de02bfe22952964b28
font_01_sfnt_off00018706.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18706 2156 bytes
SHA-256: b7d2811abd610e1afac51195fcb467254fa996601faabed743e98b0e80f7d5fb
font_02_sfnt_off00019070.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19070 14400 bytes
SHA-256: 84da1ee9a7b535415a20b5b99f6742f3d61b6bfebb0d98f8f568b1a6b7b00f55