Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cee39495039085c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 22:56:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 14fd6d45f6a828696a0f4de6e347e27b SHA-1: 8ded12999d7198609f8a81c9c123a886dc761480 SHA-256: cee39495039085c00328509305a3b07e6a672a22a9e2c0c9696783b04e5fe00c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of 'wkhtmltopdf' in the metadata and the structure of the extracted URLs indicate a potential attempt to disguise malicious content or facilitate phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern suggests the document's purpose is to lead users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zack+snyder+justice+league+itunes
    • http://charmingcurls.se/upload/file/51275617363.pdf
    • https://tauthuy.vn/upload/files/44345738703.pdf
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/gabediniresetigofaki.pdf
    • https://idosekotthonaveresegyhaz.hu/files/files/lazepevigagapef.pdf
    • https://learnrkb.jugalbandiresearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47547646950.pdf
    • https://beautydent.hu/editor_up/42373480200.pdf
    • http://www.dogwoodagility.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62347572920.pdf
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161412b695679d---pusaxonawufabimowijuf.pdf
    • http://akpanlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/koxiloginibewu.pdf
    • https://nls.vn/upload/files/23411530365.pdf
    • https://studybrilliant.online/app/webroot/img/userfiles/file/18579526795.pdf
    • https://www.edm-medical.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60472515904.pdf
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/fiwotiselexekanugolimefej.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3fe2ed52ee06a0eaa4b6c64a51661ab/pumorovafenaxavevigive.pdf
    • http://wingprocess.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ximemegakako.pdf
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130171d6f4b3---7115278433.pdf
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/tufelejigawixijusoza.pdf
    • https://agri-mal.pl/userfiles/file/nezebeso.pdf
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/76668774100.pdf
    • https://yuvasarkar.org/userfiles/file/ketomon.pdf
    • https://www.db-ynox.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bunukinima.pdf
    • http://clingac.es/d/files/liteliwugixotofoxoman.pdf
    • https://tauthuy.vn/uplo
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2ea.bin
f160e3d44f84666e86f8979445f974e877db73a310193a72bfa6a725da96eca1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2EA 19120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000104a6.bin
518658700385f7079d0855019ec81aa6047eb85d39f1b88ab48b4e3b29925216
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A6 10824 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d9a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9A 16792 bytes