Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9612209012088f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:31:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 49beba8bcf7d8c4aad0e246f590492d7 SHA-1: fc91703b0003d16671e36732ee67e6485b572644 SHA-256: e9612209012088f268b801c997656e47baafb27889a072858005441c87eacb3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malware or visiting phishing pages. 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 0.9986

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=top+free+cad+software PDF link annotation
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a4f59d7afa---24534251733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a6a772554---jazejiwidujoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/nujofagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3aa2c67f88---75821617982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/62576235708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu78.ru/userfiles/file/nipuxazabopobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/18068292426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/162pabjukftt1ml9uc7qpp1tia/zoxurijunitiwiroxiwikuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5hm85oeubcs4a4kmqqgcod7n4/130218247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/33972592389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36c3048d71f031a35605375a3cc7ed03/89209773059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8eb081339258604bb093fb23862f241/matidepokiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plafondchauffant.fr//img/user/file/6441464361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majorpropertygroup.com/userfiles/files/52672801233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skywaytravelandholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikai.jp/free_images/files/jukomujezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinocosmik.ru/sadm_files/kafozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43963005277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a6f9d6bdfe---zizifojinomomunewawumiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brbud.pl/userfiles/file/jawuwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mustang.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zigovobogog.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_off0000b3c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBD7 15056 bytes
SHA-256: 25bb9776bc42baea0510dd298c26d6965323af766918ec2a2d471679b05ce2ce
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1BF 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 72235e0e6a4033329519dc8c1ca0c86e8ae03e6bc76cb8f87899e739a7b6f0dd