Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de69d56da6a2e3d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:44:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 29e5fbe11a0f3c125ad0c63cb6caf325 SHA-1: a2df8260c1b003b700aa865c542714e81612c827 SHA-256: de69d56da6a2e3d2908ab30d1c963fd6812be3338d763d93c7557e951f79e90f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=is+the+8+plus+water+resistant PDF link annotation
    • http://radissonhoteltraining.com/userfiles/file/gomurufinow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7840b8334c---zotava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dbffd20d5c37377d46ebf08c665c521/56403246069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/gigufosusuxewevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29464a1679cf936fd7dc565d06b42537/wemafevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hepefom8j086m1op198gv101fb/segasoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1f69b34397677a6e6c9343249032f52/32656562427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099cb704133b---37781072126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5qprc4vei3pufbipmbhikkj6cf/46410773969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701f3479f53---95282163881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ded97f13081c7eb37af896801235c1d1/20204334741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd3de9b603---keneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd4a96d847ef46a0b04c66dd4e0ac5d9/zofidalogowikile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5a78cfe74f625c5fe2a274eff8eb6ca/98501549547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace7b0640a4---malejow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2e652b736c250248423f286e5ba52ca/33954555127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eed5828ad3278e53e4fef3999f9dc1d/foperunuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simplehome.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/powopitid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ee80063d8ff555369cce2085cf89155/54057794681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/20567321714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71373007735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/92844952261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2308a1877a---gadawawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epfip6bbcv4ihrfhocfffl5hts/midazofugolitekezevef.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_off0000efbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFBD 17272 bytes
SHA-256: 0af43ff94cc0fcf8c6de4d2266e46d74da6e443459212ad7998ec8bd199841e6
font_01_sfnt_off00011d0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D0D 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 2a582e3d09834594d49efd88505f6e83746e90155225704b1ac7c2e7759da51a
font_02_sfnt_off00013539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13539 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1