Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41138b62c2c47932…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:51:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0866d10c459fa43778c8c3876a796225 SHA-1: a6a45152cd977a535a9948f4928d19bfd7e8baab SHA-256: 41138b62c2c479320ce09d68b3491229e46a48e889d05a35de171f9ae9f2f6eb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards an attack pattern involving external resource redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/josirisibegizetofer.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ca78b5006a8580dbeba425c0f29c00d/74673341772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd0f9d6bf29---lupokebitobinon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carmakers.cz/userfiles/files/68912609093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a843cce9972---72688118650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldapa.eus/files/galeria/files/xitawut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personal.sut.ac.th/chantira/port/ckfinder/userfiles//files/wukejuzirovebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-label.com/upload/files/34741575283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henghuitong.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210621040011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c07ecefd615b979dc70c27e43a10ec0a/1621916839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124e58fb6d0e---43394535040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medipharmacompany.com/userfiles/files/29522091893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021072315270873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a7ab07f20244a082959e95a9ada5fc1/46798655386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/23655816094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82c6f6977f7b55a59d8cac7ede8addfc/93048788106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iapnp56imkokcq4jf5cngkd4bs/88494000046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3upjjfuojfsksv429mfn9kor6/kizodib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgrappresentanze.eu/userfiles/files/siderutizejitujoseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l41chkntvd6jbn57plpk34n1d5/30081053713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindendirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33761489200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franceplus.fr/userfiles/file/lasuvogufusexiberemaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbelly.org/content/files/files/48183586841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=sylvania+bluetooth+speaker+sp5776+manualPDF 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_off0000b942.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB942 17592 bytes
SHA-256: 1573d6067d0fc759ee9bc2614dbec20c5037a0c9369e31c7ee94c7293c123092
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6BF 11456 bytes
SHA-256: 24b4c2ea51054ab78f2de35ddd10661feef8a23b6074c16307475f63dbd9c3ea
font_02_sfnt_off0001018b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1018B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1