Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d11d05de72bea7da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-06-10 23:05:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d28f36439774c770e37fc94fac42ef7c SHA-1: 9884328fc797ded1cb0f9e70b804421d2539711c SHA-256: d11d05de72bea7da1bb6a5f042773e9a31f4038e3082a92334fb401a1ec3f8a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a specific book title, likely a lure to disguise the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mcmurry+organic+chemistry+9th+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0131a700cadaf2dd7dcd7a51611ce80/zebipewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/70586600495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49i9fuva52d8k2hkuqqdsh6cn0/78791736905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c283d3e62819e724ae54def47b4ad91a/tumawaraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0evmp5o3aj5piqr9pjbd3e9m9d/dujulufudogadidefulig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/kiwekewidaneperajur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/bejesigomurakipimudifesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/banogotuvikubovuwawodixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5437e0401---99146436430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7f0bf1e62---5174495873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fed7d0d5f3---ditoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iho6ai8k6l28u0j4gjdr71cju2/gesajopomoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ud45ja5tjkj503sofn58db1p53/notelolilaxagerug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/xewonewimozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54636e9d285db2561dca04ce472149a1/vufabavusefilolajebelesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD100 5800 bytes
SHA-256: d8206a35b733a9dde0d53d98e54e7aba744a900ea642acd4cd517cc932f3f81e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A7 12952 bytes
SHA-256: 23d9a93f955f052ec9ff1f74922436234c61e66cb5ae98f46d3a6750c1685c76