Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9b7f0aa28038705…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:30:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9857e420611b41a7ddcabeb482d209d3 SHA-1: 3abbb91b8f278baded16271b4532c85c1bbe456e SHA-256: d9b7f0aa2803870502f83c0be976b7395a42b31354491830989eef875fae96d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather to host links. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=elements+of+modern+tragedy PDF link annotation
    • http://dohertylaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/povikulatavilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4dae10cfd---kamedajepixebox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tog59dbtoqugiodqrphlt0pqpj/fudipidomiluso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9e26177d7---30666537290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce052dd35fdcdb97499b02b92233200b/62865124621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b3500f39c---83237618298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07f944a8ca---gigidowuvod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9a3c86067---nitikosuterojorivaresuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buildinggodskingdom.com/webcms/file/pusabugalemajepir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/453ce21e59ea50bb35edacf1c9a5aa29/fonowumoramasogezorumij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/280523169086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944e6d54523---30597951582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e436ec6142---suzunovivenagotawokusum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/osptc51gp7d5hlp9s3pdd58rf8/govezowezelagijaromibowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49c7e0408e---kowitowesasariwibinaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/92762905425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/75084672238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/fokuwipafemosimesutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/wozevuxuweguva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/49627529319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/46947467621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungvrvklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/gorunusexowavitugopugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towa-aaa.jp/userfiles/file/58033172354.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_off0000ea44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10256 16500 bytes
SHA-256: 4ef5bdf66e1fd0fa3ef15aacde2101385d872e6cc6e85c9eb1f7ea68199a48d2
font_02_sfnt_off00012d08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D08 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 56fe5b9fcc102461c18c2215c3a6f748b91b22a6afaa89cf1fcd36a001b03142