Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 410a7d2b5d964d43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-24 15:52:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7ccb84aa5340835d5acd17cdf0ccdf26 SHA-1: 1e1969d7ff078974af9b18016a032990dba88a54 SHA-256: 410a7d2b5d964d43db1b6c9264b40d1ffba5a2f409e7b3881791a9a5238be798
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the overall structure and URL distribution suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.civilhospitalpalampur.in/img/uploads/files/kafusumefoxanowurogasaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eatatrudy.com/uploads/files/lekobarugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47954369544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myshalewell.com/userfiles/file/83538902886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilaide.com/upload/editor/file/tujafepesafodopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/zonoturunek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb1a69154c54fbe803fed42ded45c1b1/38633447611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/33362049567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75fda595c780fd5cb5ecec62d6c6c230/28821211420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honderhotel.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210922202718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tznjl.com/userfiles/files/xifiwofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stickers-moins-cher.com/userfiles/stickers-moins-cher.com/file/15858458233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9a4cd5740a57fa89bd2780be5403f92/gonituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/mojasawupegadimelitimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skywaytravelandholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viwakevexutegosasufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coherence.cz/userfiles/file/rirumemakoxegeviluxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/22225361842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phayaotechno.com/UserFiles/File/mapubezefozuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d3c0fade4a---84572685173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--q3cceuw0c6ab0d2ii.com/upload_file/files/zufuzedurigivipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denprokhorov.ru/images/file/37408803831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatsah.com/webroot/img/files/27592439256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://word.mn/uploads/assets/3770846999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kgogr92nv7g6al1voccgrrgkne/85907732826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=use+android+phone+on+tvPDF 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_off0000b4df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4DF 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 1b251ff58ac981cf6f4b9f99d994bd87c40e805e645bbe610254dbf01d2834a3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCC3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e4d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D5 16672 bytes
SHA-256: 03adbf3a0476fc7c655222bd9b166fb794a4b99ef7f5ba1db210b6aacfd56a0b