Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3d10cd533ac571c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:47:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a364f61789186e92f1d35f42d9e895d8 SHA-1: 83006188e2fc716a6dfbc06398b2028f509adca0 SHA-256: f3d10cd533ac571cf17916cde51361804bd5bf8abffe53023bc4b65cc9fad62e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which are likely used to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/854e0596a39bc32f317cc0df6f171f15/40341647624.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d2725ed21---22211418337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160974772912f3---27972650868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60c7f54fa0ad1ec04ba6f06cbc647f03/2143295919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9700804ff7---61947542912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3009f9d824---23276993434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/59231634005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb49dda52d3c13a349f4622759523eca/52373158327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec06e60335---tukifulema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a86f0673449aa157019193e62bbe833f/2996935253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77ceivskv0v4recmc359gdq1ve/jubepajakafewikapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c8716ff0a3cd56ddec94e92bc3a304e/96719115607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b768a6da66f---95080034440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6e4d3792d4c0ad4ea266e3e01c8fb36/jexarujajatakidaboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d7e7c400cbc0b9f753e472a12cb5479/85216434821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qu2apk8aifm8sr2rconk612fn7/69788178975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/41890168359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpk.hu/_user/file/dopimalevalusepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085873a32174---momegeburugatokapizaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbcd481d12---11280729939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qvo9t0t1lgt4n95u54rgrbkqq0/silekuvizuzat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=list+the+functions+of+an+entrepreneurPDF 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_off0000e9f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010207.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10207 16724 bytes
SHA-256: 931f476ab9596f8a8cb131b9ba3b36cb3827653ea09ba2f6ba40e73ba319380d
font_02_sfnt_off00012d22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D22 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 7ae73f7cb2ee577b598994c84b76371f1fb1dd42f4cd6c25b61bbd5da8aaa5c3