Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3941c0fa00573cfe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-08-14 17:15:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a980afc07e2d8baa9a1ca9db4afea720 SHA-1: 5a52b11a56130e9f78dddea2d4c13479779ab3f2 SHA-256: 3941c0fa00573cfe45a0074d9eb8d191b9e26c37776699fd7e08d2ec311bd6f7
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, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document's structure and embedded links are designed to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/69297202384.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://clove7.com/userfiles/file/kukutewuwitemekimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdee9c3f126---nabovejigeluwozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210710_010722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834e07c0138---jusojoxaloxupopuguduna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52d4ed16718617a49ca507c06b49e9f2/76185842785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0253c43ce2---wusizozojuxomoxawusadete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/25986717016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/bofemanujatupaduvumifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29a2a1188260af427bb640da521d46f8/46723855360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe033298214---9282452793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daynexweb.com/upload/ckfinder/files/68740717469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brno-skoleni.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kinumof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spprp.pl/userfiles/file/kumane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----dtbhwhggdaoqfh3d.xn--p1ai/media/file/92828780315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210808191308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbfd40c640a5717e18f7130524a86237/dunikuwutosujiribajirivam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df4046d2f7---korozawotesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d60d1bb22027f40e31ade85acc89fac8/vekisezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1c7d595cae60f826b85f6644373d895/45494207433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tiliwerowudevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e4f9bcd8b---32234867191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getem.pl/files/file/fotetenudaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/posazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc10cd3c6a82eaa14e8b2c39f56432c6/dedatufoxijagisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+the+grinch+stole+christmas+plot+summaryPDF 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_off00010264.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10264 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A7B 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 9545e75f8dae062ddac2519ac718f98a32121899e08140701e6bbb8c561ca987
font_02_sfnt_off00013445.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13445 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 71f4dad50ed4109b38cc1d200942cef6042cb0c06f7d7473554d5c8a02b7303e