Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e075247f20308226…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-08-19 00:33:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d07f6d2b6038c607a914181840147c7e SHA-1: b91cc996e03e92728b9093d9c7a37cc5ce96756a SHA-256: e075247f20308226c369be4bbb29591f6f82c46d7604199e869b96a15d4aede1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The embedded links, including those hosted on compromised WordPress sites, are designed to redirect users to phishing or malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=is+a+notarized+custody+agreement+legally+binding PDF link annotation
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1301dc3162---rerixeviwosedopaxoladob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31179995084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102c29062a23---81965414261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2h3rf41cm2kvka8b1eaojdmo1/40199066765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6235fba81dbc2377ad03ab86bd2384ae/letezij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areaengineeringsrl.eu/userfiles/files/nezemesivebipulivel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4f1b2e5356---lesujux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dr7iugdggu7ml3ib0icsvpr810/ruxuvatawafaweparutati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agmatbaa.com/upload/files/72903560316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/dinomitikamufuwavogize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biholka.cz/uploades/userfiles/file/48640532593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba36f3cc329---mixenosiwawineliwuselufen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/fezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55679625499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pastelbuilders.com/userfiles/file/5424914715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/rexubufijuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb202870b68e47bcbb37b91b91451c8b/90733213702.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_off0000dd2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD2A 16348 bytes
SHA-256: d97f4337d05ce8aeb8c65bdbdf8c59fe184967527da97c7550fc5b9ae61f22c2
font_01_sfnt_off0001079d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1079D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB4 11080 bytes
SHA-256: edd57d73be2da82bf55b75379ae548019693752640a0e435e918c7c224b4d6e6