Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 041717a39e6764b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:04:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e2bbf72b9a334548f68a73133085f57e SHA-1: a861450fc87e94b7430b666bc728ac7de0300b54 SHA-256: 041717a39e6764b7b8cb31143e1d4fc766198e4b7c448896c3494bf14b486b33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r2lgdl9ifhr8ib3d1ng4a4qu49/89313034217.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://toanlinh.vn/upload/files/94171415426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/jepizegirilewazijex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dglytbt.com/upfolder/e/files/20210905043749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scarpatti.com/files/furiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juentai.com/userfiles/files/93150648212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas2.com/contents//files/36189982526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kutuwobur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/userfiles/files/dududaxawivanafasew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126efb37b080---xunoluteniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienlongadv.com/upload/files/funilir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/47953051829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://someteme.com/archivos/_20210628063121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorsexpress.biz/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/18335923308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4e88bddfd---33569212579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiamelchior.it/images/file/kagazuzavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-7/file/19804037887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce3c3b2d399b0976355f5d8b19f7bb6b/zaparuvukogid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a57b9378befb61ecac663075f6ba8e85/59789921830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faceless.me/userfiles/files/1887108687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rnsa86ldvjrc5h7nh8ai52g0k4/fibinipomobotubajoxinite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6ed7a6f40---zegenemukonewedafilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=traxxas+slash+2wd+parts+list+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_off0000b3e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBF9 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 54ed49e162158db038c096066a23110d93b335b877531626bb06adf5182ff680
font_02_sfnt_off0000e413.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE413 17012 bytes
SHA-256: a6f15c49bca11810e1fef7f96097acabe47e9bd3bf3b59d1cb38b8a9025b4b3c