Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7cbbb6459aaa7a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:56:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b74afdce29e4e13528dc76478eef3ba4 SHA-1: b112b73ef26c7dfd03886c4a03a54df25cc35e8a SHA-256: f7cbbb6459aaa7a5932fe75902687ecd59efde4268a8baf92a82d0b09eb6b1a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, but the presence of external URIs and link farms strongly suggests a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e0514ab709bae2710559b25b1ba1176/toloretapokeduruwonaxexuw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e41a0b347f3---19656986711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anpo.vn/upload/files/71018607080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83595cbl2idekitbq5biqpeas3/lotizokigiwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.hu/userfiles/file/14325282364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb13649a59---85718593307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jujavabasifalafebonuxajor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26098594402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tk2bjfppuhj512taicubq8uek9/52941504150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kripasec.com/userfiles/file/jozetonuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9d63188ec---tutegitadujokibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/592d1d41215889ce264bb0b918f2c99c/19154111331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbb984ba153ecbe65ec0f909ced7d2ab/zodozebolizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f14c08a24da74ed1eccf345065d4abac/19911225145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21390720027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cda235f7f---jasufisapil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/44542975515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/gixuxewekubun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaldiskibus.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210621_1029A8300FA57FC0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba9e8b099d---38592956529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/87111669486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee957e164c7---25804089996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pearproperties.in/userfiles/file/kikozojaxupoluwovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efad0729d8---minujemisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuturesthai.com/uploads/files/83830213901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=career+interest+survey+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_off0000c073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC073 15264 bytes
SHA-256: 149e482c1e9cf334b0129d165c5511010af387f145127d80573d9b34d8f582a3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F8 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 5c0972530563d5397603a10be847477b4428fce5be9cc413053f19c91c37a8ec
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1