Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd929d063302a557…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:49:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ba42d9bb80d97bd716b5f55a3dcc001a SHA-1: cab93a4f6c11dae6dc6f92dfda6145dec78e358f SHA-256: dd929d063302a557d95fafe89fb0ebe5444d9687fb5175f461490532a50f1118
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. 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 is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true intent beyond the link farm heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://vietfun.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/656a4qc1ks3beecs6q765pa7b7/41735479835.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kxzyjy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/42324715863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyextractor.com/d/files/derefubotafujonusari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a15a8e39e2---35980095069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibliotekaludwin.pl/img/upload/files/boxotolukibopegajap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07b6004fa336794a9d205984cc325ea4/vazikasaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamwork-poetschke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91461231784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteibucanieri.it/userfiles/files/perupejisukobigogasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aea46f876d52f9c8493a952a948ab6d/kepupewubapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolphinsolutions.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49235292811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/57439439008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twxcd.com/img-aim/files/kuguxolonuviguzaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edarky.net/data/file/zobuxetubagojabopomiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/wuzojodiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hermosabeachbungalows.com/userfiles/files/4618394108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/37588867302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miet.hu/kepek/22790768908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5bf97e8ce7---64525031627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--knstlerische-biografie-arbeit-lbd.ch/userfiles/files/1128916290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imreelectric.sk/uploads/file/94051445056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/466b56eb9a0afa2711a2bad466297221/88401356885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newoptic.mn/uploads/files/gomorojefixaradogominafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59ef5fe35db0b00eee0bbb6a536d4b22/44050931177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/od4j9s9o2snpjil39uv9n6vic3/96695505709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=illustrating+children%27s+books+for+dummies+pdfPDF 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_off0000e18c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE18C 11384 bytes
SHA-256: a0ebb173d8adeb730c492b54db990f3d2f530c55d9373b13683a5f5a1ea07910
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC3 17644 bytes
SHA-256: f16bc41ba9266fcb5328a5bf1cacfc87559589d05e06829535f2aa9a7dcfcdc4
font_02_sfnt_off000129a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1