Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df982dd6c5d697d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-06-13 17:06:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 93a936e76151291300cd125cfe1a68b1 SHA-1: a6165f9f6a130134a52896b15c847fac41a262d9 SHA-256: df982dd6c5d697d088d4996c7a02cf9cc0cfe5a2e63258a2ea1c28757a4567c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further indicating a non-legitimate purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=who+we+are+and+how+we+got+here+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608791a962753---sezinudodawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsm8cmac26r8vfig17jkilg4t3/gepigujozelakavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/763628d4852ed2ddac58a23ca6b6eb5d/5295428398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/58833936079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/xuxilajokumakolar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88latrerup05gjtig1glm0d5dn/77247367170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdb8d46553ee6d785560899ea5789936/pedajusilegajub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e801aac58---ludosuxikam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927b903680f---teguzizafebetipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/defaboja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f1f2ad406---92744804876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/misogakaxuxokodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2fc803703309dc2d7a441a2aa909678/84788433719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyn-koe70.de/obrazky/file/xiwexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fbee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBEE 4936 bytes
SHA-256: 018d3f82ba9b0064c707b2036cc1e21230e0ebb45ba234c36a85b11a388658cb
font_01_sfnt_off00010cc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC8 11052 bytes
SHA-256: f1a093b917963ea710b976bb81a6e0648abba2fb07eb5b800ce015ba7ab1697e
font_02_sfnt_off0001326e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1326E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c