Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41103f8e35cdc173…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:53:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e7a5a1c786218c2106479f4de31009aa SHA-1: a789b83e1133e1c4317fe30a8b4b6c057a86e871 SHA-256: 41103f8e35cdc1739b5d7811e407f9adfa87ba7196c131e58ff7ea54a5787f2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The embedded URLs, while numerous, are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ea66a87a69---viposabo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f45312d3c5f9f05c550fb52ec55e6803/84858713836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajotufetuzavojoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents//files/76113911075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/binepatanew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b21325f2c8---31916582562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipsgroupjjn.org/userfiles/file/rekofabebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ce4c5c77dcf51d037ce704e4c9ce438/50526421054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiophotosfashion.it/userfiles/files/9517714196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12873ad80a0692a79996b29702379062/58746940483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verticala.ro/images/userfiles/88217091483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b309877efe2---28540001801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072aad46c78e---77774040954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piataafacerilor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/65302749617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/lawezojegokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7cc7f0a72---vaguvumus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didopack.com/files/57152719021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f71818e1ba---rapuraxewimovodejup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundai-dongdo.vn/images/files/17759985222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://museodegliarazzimarsala.com/userfiles/files/93968362845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodvellythailand.com/upload/files/vigodopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61751135a9---43344975319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4481deab6---towefalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicadit.ro/UserFiles/file/tasutopitiwosibewew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=exercises+verb+tenses+with+answers+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_off0000d599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD599 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000edab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDAB 18960 bytes
SHA-256: 0a58197f08d3fcd928f8d8fad54d54c69c56c7a1e1a96625faedf8fe803ce1ee
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE5 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 7f3ad826d86d13fec408dbdfc768c70bfbd28d2a704745c42e87d07b8dba9528