Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 141d96dd01988d82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-22 22:21:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cc64f51f3a7000ad8ae21a3fca7b0766 SHA-1: 4cc227ff24cebe3190db0a31f5353a93333e5edd SHA-256: 141d96dd01988d8267a1b7c27b2e346f25298a9351b7e60e904a9b65ba4992ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to WordPress upload directories or disposable domains, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://csa.china-led.net/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/kopifobemebuboge.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/29770668471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d21ff65a347e2d2b8be94eb5b1ef2a19/jotenibigabamisekipeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domario.ru/userfiles/file/29762753236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/luneluvajufutopatis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aztkgb.love-mrt.com/upload/files/nedoxetuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kprmk.pl/userfiles/file/85721855264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyokushin96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wagafome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/60225756111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adec-interiors.net/Uploads/file/56818965274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bfc8e7d096---rawitukafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/36300071044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhouseschool.com/rockhouse/uploads/files/wedoses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0det7ngura1v6norci8frqoo8/42594022082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0be85b498---siruvapazodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148d5f74a0fa---nivunaselaredivego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141e0f899184---56520529840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayersoffice.com/userfiles/file/46292150513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konzolstudio.ro/uploaded_files/file/lerokadosemorebemuxaxaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xetnghiemadndanang.com/upload/userfiles/files/gexonosimuresoxedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragoniresorts.com/userfiles/jupewetedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronikarp.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94943358006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18782811916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed6bb5209f98aea207de3913c22c4b11/38462208349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/35277213873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofelician.com/userfiles/files/vijilikonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=el+libro+de+los+secretos+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_off0000c5a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5A9 18496 bytes
SHA-256: bd6bf4ca5e7886aad56b85f02c4df00b14dd7f30c5b7f45b25ef1fd447dcfe9c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f42b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF42B 10468 bytes
SHA-256: d9e33158350fcb1697811799bcc16c28e8ee226c4299c8d4d8261221014050ef
font_02_sfnt_off00010bcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1