Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 410b761197489305…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:03:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 35f8c5092274b935e935053d995ece1d SHA-1: d071b975b9f54659c764440fd7d9c9bbb915ffb8 SHA-256: 410b761197489305d9b6f5510c28902f31f9d52cf31c032c1f7d4110fb8f604e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to domains associated with link farms or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lead users to phishing sites or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hernia+lumbar+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://wellnesszeewolde.nl/site/data/ws/files/nelegijaxofuzikesekobulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likeevent.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/lapufovijekuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-amc.com/upload/files/jilakazifidimut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petrovsky14.ru/docs/files/ruvixuzukijitumokogosuwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e4664c8e08e76154a8165f22a29f5ee/26412144667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/jumisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibk9e1btafrk3d77tnf1c5mqp1/13712347896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130036d8bd1b---dejorevidenapoxadofusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oack0ua3e7ms11rb1ohf4idba2/kijazuzuzevebukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd6239ff19e5f114aec55e2c9723f939/8821966520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1d0780c69---jinafixozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.net/contents/files/42522940589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/vijuxizaxewep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velo.hu/UserFiles//file/sopejesuvake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/kiguwonogamonebedazap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/851a44be192dab05a30d076a9d86c39a/5350273196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huyminhplastic.com/upload/files/77237078366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimar.ua/userfiles/files/92164543541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callalilyvn.com/upload/files/94475840394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114d461470d8---50336348569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8bd17471ec---buwegabuvedilexesafif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3689c4bfa6186de35609d44bdcd06d3/tivupefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b49615b2ad---kulisepafadefesule.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_off0000db4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f364.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF364 10504 bytes
SHA-256: f13e71aeb2c6641b16655d1b34aef48583c2057337d4f4dbd56962bab4106392
font_02_sfnt_off00010adc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ADC 15932 bytes
SHA-256: 86c51ad25ebd4b6cd9122064735ad4b56acc4033e474d482946103f34d11b78c