Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2941a92723fec422…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.4 KB Created: 2021-08-11 08:07:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a561efb77f06ab3fe1ef36c5ae695c2d SHA-1: b5aeb1ea681b84844db662e16401cfee539d762e SHA-256: 2941a92723fec422f4f0847e34ceb4cad0042c8ad55dd2ba800279f46901180a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

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://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xajaregozaxiwo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de1bec5e22a---61544319200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/wakoxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42301cb58a---45164356573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbb66a03b6922135c6e72f41e912d612/turugawapug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d91e01227---rudakijaxofanipasumisexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/874cfb38a7b30a31a5869e49173eb1fd/xipojulemukokos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/52172641913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newdimension.su/userfiles/file/gunakinigafejibebawezudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/85889535526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093bbc240717---pupirazuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905a202109d---12733711181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatfailogistics.com/fckeditor/files/file/62877230860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e76a9c7d846e8a7900e781dc02475ca/tupufogofuragidovijuduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/zeraxefovekujoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/rirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamdinhgiadaiquang.com/img/files/jifuxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74504031700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cbdae2b1a3---41314208094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95e9322e346b68e4a244b535793f269d/40248775406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ive-cal.it/file/38130879424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/botoxumowunoroxejofurobuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/84350405699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/jezixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609688a641d35---jezizasab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=poema+a+la+orilla+del+agua+escritoPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010ccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CCF 18804 bytes
SHA-256: 23e2a6531a1b51a8fe01ead8eaceea386444e2cd53dbcdb19e51e08ab0831659
font_01_sfnt_off00013c1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15431 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 9763154b6c24a306041eb29be04fcfa53ce2c198f395bfbe4aef0f71d4b26210
font_03_sfnt_off00016c95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C95 4164 bytes
SHA-256: 947b6376a8a1bf303cf39a4a80b114030e5b91ca8735b27dad2ab2b96a2384db