Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8789748df6638b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-07-09 08:01:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2a45c67d1129b0317b08af8952b4f3c2 SHA-1: 77676c9590907af991f33c36c7372fcbb96f4a1e SHA-256: c8789748df6638b10d055cf2c4852132def9efac46f8f02ece47dd7827be69c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or scam campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking readable content but containing embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fatigue+after+heat+exhaustion PDF link annotation
    • http://auapp.ch/userfiles/files/zosisofawekevasule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyadvisersaustralia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/751f06f1424bc9d78647f7456dfc0749/mimitibagoxovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viajesalaos.com/webroot/img/files/49929429421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b69d31d44c19dfeec28f13b2c4b921d7/galadaxegunar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607097ec1b6db---91652614383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/badovubimifilomoroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetranhtuong.info/luutru/files/mavutedidasiwobonobupiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91b6d016115699d9d3c6579dd6ed998c/lixoweribinitez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e68e2k1bbbb8p3e63lcrr25uh/divudivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad632c16109---salenepuveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gj3pnu9csrsun5k5qvvui8gcrh/wezoxosexotoxipesemibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d749b49c305---505165274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744742b9a38---39983242392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7vdnqrgor54qncr9v3vor8l3a/43902035590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/61185205647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northphoenixmustangs66.com/clients/4/4b/4b49b54eec06ebba3741256e9f3e6f2b/File/92556945040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/danuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/53552957371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9eef87ca9---9058397336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dotewuxosoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66ee05a697---tijerogokipuwazuseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f52da789510ac8159db33fa2cdceb570/88093571274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/mojibilesam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607694a510843---rumagilotapufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/rupawufalesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ffe3045a1---fipenimiroronageta.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_off00010795.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10795 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 93acc5a2a0d9ff80a14a521faf66516b0caca4db07c69f40876abfdd14d459ee
font_01_sfnt_off00011fde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FDE 17136 bytes
SHA-256: e122e1760bc3d1413a8b03ba99e94af1123f97e62a319dc5a2d0b0107b3473c1
font_02_sfnt_off00014c7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1