Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c84617456401e346…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 22:01:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e166bca426749f41a644087863a54439 SHA-1: a74bee755ec8097e34def888e9d126a44e80d3db SHA-256: c84617456401e3466619fa73b78b89a256a053feb9454a0693df86e137ddafd7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and links to potentially compromised websites, 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 generated by wkhtmltopdf, but the presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+emoji+on+contacts PDF link annotation
    • http://140.121.180.103/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nemasamujata.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/46015225535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hypotekaprezamestnancov.sk/res/file/39508001863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhcoaching.nl/userfiles/files/66486340286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicboxpiano.com/contentfiles/wivetesupanojexipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/87372075655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomosciprzetargi.pl/files/file/5761097451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ludoliburikov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buzascsaba.hu/userFiles/file/pegoliwuzoxubasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7p6aqma0fqvbi4o6bi8ialsn5/nalipoburibitetivezabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viethanit.vn/hinhanh/file/kebubugunatunepimezesoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ags-car.60km.com/upload/files/88257268557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zssadkowice.pl/pliki/nojezuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoklej.pl/app/webroot/media/files/72676329609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misterholidaysanprisco.it/userfiles/files/52501155814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150002.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210908012335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.be/userfiles/file/wipixazuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekorepetycje.eu/Upload/file/pulinodonexajidatufoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipublichouse.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87081983476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasz-pap.hu/UserFiles/file/bozerogegifanitegil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd304bfc8e8ec8064c8320d6435750e4/limimokonitife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccargiurgiu.ro/userfiles/file/lejekevogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juncheng.tw/upload/files/mefitejekomox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133657bc1bb4---mubimipug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsebolivia.org/userfiles/file/89868686070.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://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_off0000b2f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2F8 16416 bytes
SHA-256: af5f97acab74f0d0a843fe12942861db6c77b646f9365b5f48fd9597ef048ba2
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D2 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 5fc360e5613bde21b8d9f53c6d74ef0e721b3f900978855faca8627d4f744795