Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f41d5bfb6fb57b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-08-16 09:01:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6dad848d3fa054624d2a4b899a3a9936 SHA-1: 6db01190126fb5b9f9ec0005813f46836ce1210e SHA-256: 1f41d5bfb6fb57b805ca99ede206bbf03881c80815a93252065a5aa5924f628f
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 phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/24104208129.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074231b6c946---jopixavadakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkathirilaw.com/userfiles/files/75794841833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwsalisbury.com/uploads/files/71676393172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutergroup.de/userfiles/file/16460898575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savannahcentury.info/clients/4/44/449a5b3489ef279447e90cf6cdd72f1c/File/43694786219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tg67ktsrlsd8r5aj840gj1akcj/84353305306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2ff9d811b---zixewugiketisereseza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standardamulet.com/files/files/suxemixizunokileroda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec6d17bfe7be26169b522ff7e7844626/xivibelalafefuzaxexir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b3b04907f67cb27c6de4e2dca70ee5a/50834584648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--hjrnskadeakademien-mtb.se/userfiles/file/43287526958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae325d3aef0---voranavupeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veszpremkosar.hu/_user/file/xideguzukunadexepitifazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787f7224cd0---jibupakozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/80380707846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc3390b12b---dolanorupuwewenejojeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/74931881437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077adbb5ac27---57412257537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9db458da757fe1e8ed9224834463d9e4/75828326865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unibox.lv/files/text/2754488661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/tokanifisirunuzajeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridagreatescape.com/media/file/boladoveparire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/vopotasitetiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608473d2c0ef9---73950908269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ave+maria+bach+gounod+piano+sheet+music+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_off0000ddd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDD1 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 0adc4d303abe570426bbe552bc168a2b4ed14901f96cb58bc0f2719b071ca150
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D6 17860 bytes
SHA-256: a5ebf96243730be5ef049ffbf308dbd23919adf9a69955437f24ef7529b9c451
font_02_sfnt_off00012666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12666 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1