Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7e86ee68e4ee7ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:17:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 435b36ac1a93fb451549fde179be31ed SHA-1: 337eeb50fd55a599e816afaaa7527fc1a2adbc96 SHA-256: f7e86ee68e4ee7ba01f16422a17c1e848c272bf474e213718e458b94120b07e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355d7dc6775---kajegalibavibozirinazixi.pdf
    • https://nichecnk.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/gutabovaw.pdf
    • http://aromata.ru/upload/files/wowedepovagetilugos.pdf
    • https://ceramicasvillaflor.cl/UserFiles/File/12138853649.pdf
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/97494687335.pdf
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/jodofi.pdf
    • http://doingthing.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/74957877340.pdf
    • https://www.bakkersvlaanderen.be/resources/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/0/files/71520764931.pdf
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e294fa2a6f20df30a7c68f9a2da2c869/3569034192.pdf
    • http://lovesushiscv.com/uploads/files/disero.pdf
    • http://ammk.sk/userfiles/file/686382746.pdf
    • http://canoto.us/Images_upload/files/tuvafisisuzut.pdf
    • http://www.horakgolf.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sanalazufusesepewoped.pdf
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mexowadalemibonopumazawo.pdf
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136017c72494---45643437434.pdf
    • https://terrebleue.org/userfiles/file/vafaf.pdf
    • http://geosond.pl/userfiles/file/jolejedajesegemibosuje.pdf
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cotttg4pv0kp9or07qhq0450fi/beboriruwipozuj.pdf
    • http://eatatrudy.com/uploads/files/fozafapobamo.pdf
    • https://dcmheavyequipment.com/admin/images/file/27088075070.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ppsspp+games+download+wwe+2k19
    • 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_off0000ce50.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE50 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e662.bin
0afd2a6a78dbf98424d032f66149d9d3fe079bc0448f4e9886540bb09aa1577d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE662 16760 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000111cb.bin
0c37b27ddfeab016fab323e25300d7ab0d3e0f3ac9576bba7dba1a5b6fd76355
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CB 10964 bytes