Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3dbd6e0928bd2a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-08-23 17:38:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f70819afa846b6f13a87d746f0a39bd1 SHA-1: 7d93ef60b634da6a5c86650bbdfb946a7f6cf2d5 SHA-256: e3dbd6e0928bd2a4f1a4c1e63add556bffc35b764e1786758502cdfb63146d5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be metadata from the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting the PDF itself is not meant to be read but rather to host links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/dilawutumigakifoxediw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thegioioto.store/upload/files/51710872087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161236019e214c---42885851598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metafelix.it/userfiles/files/35311047977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f64116f319---gudixewubelixibijutar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51eb9309e9ce302c7a679b8cdc9810f3/xufosepesojife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandishoverseas.com/UserFiles/File/31851454657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/sojuvanotatevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b50fad03e69a200d26c0d3a4f0a1ff8/13071216569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmaloney.com/clients/3/32/32eae1a42220421eddab78da2f55685d/File/rojesexotelejabolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c450b4b0a5a---gikurexavenubivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d043ac8a4e---93054768728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merlegdoktor.hu/tmp/roripafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98526b5d4f---xezifugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenmongdangquang.com/upload/files/28169171757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/92995656563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bae5518d514---56783168900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hnpckjccr6g0hn8tvmd8j1nmn7/lulut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gurkhasfinance.com.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13089354639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pressvaluation.net/userfiles/file/gawunotojaxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehoron21.mn/uploads/files/92266914857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceomit.com/fckupload/file/wanawageg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stembridgefamilyreunion.com/clients/0/0d/0db03be1a97f3028174cafb645c8c91f/File/malijuxejilibuvarowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60664278e5---53509811353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+mega+tnt+in+minecraftPDF 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_off0000e1be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BE 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 602bf3788f7cbb494d7bf68db4d1687045c98c1a432ebdc0e83dc019d3905dad
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA13 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 1751cae76b9e7a7951cee8c30243234533d65cc27b04489003f73e8808b8d37f
font_02_sfnt_off00012640.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12640 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1