Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0f94631391df4f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 10:08:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d57aaf9abe3d4d334a745cbf38d43362 SHA-1: ffb7ec5bb62b2cbe772b709aabbf2c76b30ad73d SHA-256: d0f94631391df4f9a189c706765230f190a25e24001d3072f59e67428855e91f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it may be a lure to download further malicious content or lead to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99ab5adb25---gevoguguvese.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kg7kble4p7tefnko3olsntitig/60090205612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e28883bbd---97466651369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upsshop.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9351511673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fa35707a58881a28cbca712efd9506f/96256967488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609197d7f018b---46225892008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab94d8d2674---lekaxetukekevopuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ortechindustries.ca/ci/userfiles/files/53138217945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/dozufoxosenedelefipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba129b62335---belikalemefuzisexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/wijulujozaziligipepoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/30016045843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77a90460c4e1d28023d52bd015041d82/netudunitexamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609143ee9a472---betunegederujenor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076788184b90---xefokulagom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sequirk.ie/userfiles/file/15688507607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dt7f1t428up691q8e964tigvk/76950991696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/sejigevarewiluwomegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d08eff33f87488d9e96943b24a28c0f6/56019826325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchunghadong.com/uploads/files/54390823002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/tevewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fo02c8lomr8t4bcpo8idkjagi/zijufibukisabefubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090cad2120b1---48406242920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d723d20d762ae43f05db4aca7c4bc11/gikimak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=finding+dory+2016PDF 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_off0000cef9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e70b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70B 17144 bytes
SHA-256: 418fd2ae4a4e627715b2a4404c457b6cab007bfa7fdc2d3505b366496d1df0eb
font_02_sfnt_off000113c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113C4 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 74109f10a19e077d254c5f0286fb7412011b0a6dd8b6fd2b76b26d54f87ef633