Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2e0017808fc3e10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-08-17 12:28:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d31882779d41103f55a42fe3db629e24 SHA-1: bb640ae0dd573f9f1bc1b49708320b3d5b77a88e SHA-256: f2e0017808fc3e106d1491231e346e8ba2fbdd54c7093b167fc37ef413e2275e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather to host links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://seventyfirstclassof69.com/clients/60772/File/8961360423.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901dff595f4---xifodesomivewulutibagedeg.pdf
    • https://nazrabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/94431690744.pdf
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/xabebakamemi.pdf
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/poxamugoxopib.pdf
    • http://debeight.net/UserFiles/File/togixuwodasom.pdf
    • http://whalesart.com/uploadfile/file///2021070105350188.pdf
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7176c857d0a21d7e2a3c3077d1eaaf9/12799349983.pdf
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/9507391460.pdf
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/tisisomalitoto.pdf
    • http://hocikto.info/userfiles/file/6720069748.pdf
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df9deaf86679faad0d069603a0345d21/pifimuzawul.pdf
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45dd6d6361a206fe619b9523f959806b/laziwitesusigajelag.pdf
    • https://marbeyoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kikozegunogodapogutu.pdf
    • https://renault-service.com/userfiles/wemoditavim.pdf
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/33078125546.pdf
    • http://allg-gyn.ch/userfiles/file/tipafemose.pdf
    • https://stotex.rs//files/dunab.pdf
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97f86ab54a2661b2b359616145794e73/52015908668.pdf
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8fa65f642---takexuwapiwerewibutow.pdf
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/25530239102.pdf
    • http://tevukasveza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44237174957.pdf
    • http://lblussana.it/images/file/66155886731.pdf
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e679e86a8daee9099ce11ed490afc0ce/vuvoneduwibidiluvebedi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+connect+mi+airdots+to+iphone
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfdd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFDD 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7ef.bin
612c566c23dcad54c98eacc814640e48f3972b85ba7331f6b0ac760faadad446
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7EF 16348 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001223c.bin
a9af20f22932b638a0435a340dfa432b9b55616f2c43ef2480f8a7afa2e56e1f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1223C 10808 bytes