Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 168a41fa29e976c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 11:00:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a71c2bc225e2e306d6a01e23be60c164 SHA-1: 2954815428546620957a02dcd2867c908d4846be SHA-256: 168a41fa29e976c6f604fb7e2db58781e22fc34572d0ef4fccceb57b9aeb53c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for a phishing trojan. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nursing+foundation+book+sister+nancy+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://utpcomp.ru/uploads/files/pezurakivodezutivadin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/68518598153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613669d6d805f---42490939698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161382aa703ba6---62327836259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613536789fc8d---7722765966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogledalata.bg/uploads/pages/files/13680210249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134533383ff3---35713922366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wx-test.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109050420582787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dijitalsanat.link/upload/files/zosuwifujorilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/2001313147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedding-box100.com/uploads/files/202109050529412155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsk12.org/policy/files/files/7779005911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okinawa4d.com/contents/files/kokazexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meubelenindex.nl/images/uploads/fuzeperaruxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotel.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/49566613822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proia.bg/userfiles/file/48190139602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/jiliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csam-villepinte.org/uploads/images/file/57169714112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w.radeton.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zelopivudelafibevuzirari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/30455957098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashleymongolia.mn/uploads/files/kavanopexekudalafuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boki.hu/editor_up/vesiwipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausbaumesse.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nekusujaxesotuz.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_off0000c0cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0CF 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 695d7e0213a6c445967d075e8ca2c621e843eef99665afb65e68fb0d37382762
font_01_sfnt_off0000db31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f343.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF343 17544 bytes
SHA-256: 5ae8e19581a9109b13f7eb1f971a0b944a7778f1177b822593699ccd68401e01