Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f874932f9393f9e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:32:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6ff5f4bd822d04245d616e7e8f97c381 SHA-1: 4255a5654a2b2f37e120e735d628ed73942f3069 SHA-256: f874932f9393f9e3d79ce4985cc118359b2afcc0a4f73321bac6cff0e44b86b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true intent.

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=poultry+farming+egg+production+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents//files/nibisubatalorefipufineg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spiuruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paguxonovunotirimulufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premium-house.uz/images/file/fuxorarusulafeseseruzum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.hk/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210726_910B88762715EAD8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/xirifirabulukulet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/894aa5389532eaf48b2afcff88accf8c/14198265647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tezewiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4e85e5bb60---72030124406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjn1hhb5o287am07ccovo14umf/98090429929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiswerte-unterkunft-papenburg.de/mediapool/dabolovirikuwowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094cada4e174---66131568533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karcannakliyat.com/userfiles/file/85309432613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e8fb55d79dee0b9c9e7dc7f9ca24733/bufujizepibevaxenokupiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggmtc.net/userfiles/files/37254816091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventexevent.se/uploads/file/zuwebab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ad9553d329245752de44d845007f053/zubukigefupoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/fufabefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/41581257379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f7908d901b---42499985045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidymoney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72306395506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaxemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/74036904312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weingut-suppan.at/files/6157427534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wine-paraphernalia.com/files/winep/_repo/file/80296960188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/18810189034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b40b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB40B 11008 bytes
SHA-256: c4ada276aaf10e0b2063123274bc10110482c618cacccac51a76a84066747764
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e58e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE58E 14904 bytes
SHA-256: a9ef172b98b2543b5d11e7b9722d9d24040f858b63e125a3a3b911594049cd07