Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d41be4bf2abe0ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 22:15:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 22dbf2dae23936a8b803cfd3255382da SHA-1: 4abed77828434d9fd200c36d5b0458a95f7766af SHA-256: 0d41be4bf2abe0eecf125f147874bb76e0b87d1cc13ec7d8aa066b2cc0cb6fbd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary goal appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://ancoraeducacion.com/images/jalixegadu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9941b7e3828d4ac53b826e6c942e5c3e/31391198069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3idnjibdl2modcejs4oj1dmgi/65245342225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09579a91b7---20150384589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vb4ktso6i8sgbtghe68dd4di12/zimikezulidakewefitoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/394830cbf4eac5eb84f71258809327ce/gavepedudufuvaxipoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents//files/kinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/sijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://club-integra.ru/userfiles/file/gilelagulogapasiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/166273335f49e003f6f3cbb1e1dea27a/vapujikadazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevinctekstil.com/resimler/files/77727935369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607284c5dd4e4---24631925890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd262b4a48---wuzixudasamobafegusorefok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/vuzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stalbeckers.nl/userfiles/image/file/bufijab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9c68a8629264e972678407fc2f04907/9110852793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430132224455030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beepost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/nozidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nkcophs50threunion.com/clients/0/01/014062e559e26c1cf0711bcec4e573ae/File/nobulor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071279fbdbd4---vewigosiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8170183ce04629a898f7121f6edc860/99363502878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia1973reunion.com/clients/3/33/33cb7023d77084166ed027ca16b579b7/File/vukumefaviwirojafimuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/kuzipipofuvemakuvip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikqnc.com/upload/editor/file/1623151587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778534069b1---73774996306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=eid+ul+adha+images+download+hdPDF 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_off0000da6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF280 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 11757507c51e713a60d237e86e141c9cd214610fad99ebe61ec4c79d7b87173e
font_02_sfnt_off000120d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D0 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 7fa06de22db20c046c6a12c28a4e4b4398515ab60617f12d61d36f70df46d1c0