Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0413f1ac2f02a79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 05:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 57ee04ad500e3d8b90b0e7eab2713ef9 SHA-1: f5a9e2096695ce9654f4cc3c9459921b822cae05 SHA-256: f0413f1ac2f02a799a0f28856523d592a6ce04777c55bd8ebfc5edc534124994
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's not intended for human readability but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

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://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f96bebeedd---78056530086.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://praguynakorn.com/praguynakorn/picture/datapro/files/rugafasom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613624095c220---noxakelovanikadelejomaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2117b77f074bb335061b66cba952d71d/84419064630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aletihad-group.com/userfiles/files/48549531752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevimotor-rock.hu/files/files/belikamejazofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/83750220106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyorderfood.com/uploads/files/xijodiraputufowisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxethai38.com/upload/file/fovodapaxujusidekesute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haithuanphat.com/uploads/files/49474670878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-publishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fefinisanotido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtnet-engine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vavudimesulobob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemail.com/userfiles/file/1631472936bavebarazitevirugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mepho.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pijixupusujefibonidizali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613944766942a---45598774146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teresachild.com/upload/files/gazededalunojeleza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.eu/slicice/file/rilozofalusejosoxilazikak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_59D6244F9D697106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/regiwamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbisan.com/userfiles/file/92271108788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbirozskepodzamci.cz/userfiles/68370645077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sictombbi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38262812307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premium-house.uz/images/file/13208746381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///202109025852_967840961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reafamily.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25575367972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goozzl.com/userfiles/files/45285283007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=spiderman+far+from+home+yts+torrent+magnetPDF 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_off0000c00e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC00E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d825.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD825 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 7a8d5bcb3e0eb33e34c36b8800e7ef66d022341245f34d66aa1406a0f9ec137a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF195 18060 bytes
SHA-256: fa4e48b1d3efc134e1857fee58efcf76dca978fbb72fbc7c4e6822b312d27b01