Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9ef1c0fff24c308…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:22:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b742951b40f48b19715f7d106371c8de SHA-1: 789cdddc9eb635655bcf8591e521bf61c88ea20d SHA-256: e9ef1c0fff24c30841366990454c278778f833217e0abf725a0edac10b3121ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055 Process Injection

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not meant for direct user consumption but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://hiro-seiko.com/upload/files/mivuwojeganunomubo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/80440437233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9ickqg8fhe7mnouu0fje14pt0/289689178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://australiancaravancentre.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/judaruzodowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cli-kh.com/uploads/files/202108161349268264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af864929832804f8715b00f87e87d7cf/70713169472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da47b3418a0e2e3a07d668486f8dcc47/73479574542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819abf3a0c6---38635709587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7582471207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biotanika.pl/upload/file/69511489132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe0bcf70ec1---4208259810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tujuwinuzisuvesove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tdfstore.it/file/30907478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourpon.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_B6C268E625321678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/redosidubewewizemewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarasonic.com/upload/file/fuzapeguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/94346170557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccddd84bbb17bb109c2648ca69168426/xedijofofavabezugusozebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a9bfda5063cff8bfa448ada70faeb15/tiwakozanaponolinivop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agenbenangbandung.net/file/nupad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-box.eu/upload/datoteke/garolile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intergeored.com/upload/File/24455489741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://integrotech.com/zdjecia/file/7149983411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tjkdji574vmoi3dqjer3s55g31/gasemamobetuvabavimokarej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=lead+me+lord+sheet+music+pdfPDF 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_off0000cce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE5 17080 bytes
SHA-256: a22d40902d8db22e2f364cadc8080663e411043afdaff4e1f7ba28c27a763d44
font_01_sfnt_off0000f923.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF923 10840 bytes
SHA-256: edd25aa4d50e847a0902804da507c49a6d3510aea2461752d93c930cda32e3be
font_02_sfnt_off0001121d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1121D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1