Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41178ad3de903edc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:18:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0988c703983ead89387771ccbeeab9a6 SHA-1: a08b591121c654105aebe6ebe6e44b1b9cf53f64 SHA-256: 41178ad3de903edc619dd6fc26d1053419b20e0868afff10ebec0e2bc8e7c691
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a ClamAV signature and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or SEO manipulation. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/43262500217.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a6a026982ef29e85b58f608ca5cae50/2764728585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ba27ae78e---98545721542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/47621682467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/kida2018/ck_imgs/files/59487639093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.com/file/pudoxema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tukalavagigexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skk.com.hk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faverusasuzokitida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021051103195147623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcgsgeds.friendship-match.com/upload/files/65206791390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a38f464fc3---dudigowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210522084916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/rikatutapegefuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8582e657cc98bdade2b8ee7d9cf648d1/23774806123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0b175c358---sifamekubikobudopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11285017250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bephoangdung.vn/uploads/ckfinder/files/keparesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/lesakegezigovidowawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nniriombifncjbtrplqrsqnu93/dasekafatasijuxokumav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609963285a11f---52871250977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readandenjoy.ae/userfiles/files/71738142593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maternites-catholiques.org/ressource/site-image/files/89529471233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8lhb0u2v376rtcf77qtoe6mgv/ruluwatujajaguro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besttailor.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tafosodamekubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uss100.com/clients/5/56/562308f4da1da23328cfd9e5c9f3e68f/File/86416843496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7755b5ca39e57f074d6d6921bd2a0e47/gojuwifutisodugepawufigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f22f5e1e37---bazagodupoluzorinulilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=ghatna+chakra+general+science+pdf+in+englishPDF 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_off0000ca8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA8C 19480 bytes
SHA-256: ede478ef601362c5fe239e948436d6f1b6f457ab2bf64f0e01ba462f17c5b63c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011630.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11630 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 4dbd44744b2156a271ba7b96af1aa7d67fc55f27eb3c7a4b5dc08f4b338b19f6