Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 411039eb5c0b9f09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-07-13 22:54:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f0c16625ce503b7ea1dd2331e95d94dc SHA-1: af006d9070d012b8b0014bf324f7c23738b35d4e SHA-256: 411039eb5c0b9f09dc02c6f16fa031c14bcad2f10fb1d45c9837bd1d5e7ce14f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially harmful external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://cainghienbinhduong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/giwusaxobetu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb9f65911c846775d65af3047874ca6d/14692047030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d0e0b5d2f---7347251683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feast.to/upd_file/79817764672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eed6b2bf3ea97181102c0791ebf08630/tuzomomebonotama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c090d8bba---pexanidiloden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promador.pl/userfiles/file/puzigomif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086792c97b46---39188554145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160825345b1878---sijezudemonadefanezadud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210510102434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligneus.hu/upload/file/nomikonimixepeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///zumoboraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbbc900889f1956efa6b9d4d4c4c3545/82725331103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/jexapafizowajevaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ee267cd32---65869733928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rr6c6l19bd93r4qcjj06m8bl56/59899009998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b14fc6c3c3---nogixixudajoliwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/57412410490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a6395f999ece052cbb4092e346f53a6/76681477759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097900da77ac---rojufofasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dc9730600c07e1f251f615aac801f38/bolugavesela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7688786f9---38149002469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a707f59daf1---rasimokux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=theology+of+love+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_off0000fe54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11666 18044 bytes
SHA-256: c61c8c60536eac38237e07e456794e3ea740f9556e91d9316272ccb21c8bc09b
font_02_sfnt_off000144e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144E5 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 2dc772629f550dfb9b02e1db4a872a3ea9677f71f9bcc60749803023e456637f

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