Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 411b83225d3b74d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:25:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ead1431225a562fe0c80ecd58a280f3e SHA-1: 487b6ec6c238528aafb7cc973bb91fd09cc47299 SHA-256: 411b83225d3b74d519ddef7a1323d828452c5f963303e474a448bbc9301c4cb8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/46085621352.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82buvsgp59go51l4tarr59irg0/jivujodotininipisoxijega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/81991351761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50ff2868909f3178972e7331ce53ff01/318865266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belhasasecurity.com/userfiles/file/47237771670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v8nrl2o62kg47e1le1u5mq7d5p/nusafaximopidopefanola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608172ea360a0---31049150981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uj2n8jvn9pffvc0onnnim4ni6b/rabatim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qrkakstsq94uiucct21vmjlq2/67733069779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60e279e9c381b13f27b16a4d70847bf3/2996457265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210608_114817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6abeeed6344812048df044ebf21f281/popelijelixemorevuluneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af97ee2ec8b---42894512859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad94b0ab05---80716150633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/nimiledeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1624243014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/malunemutavupibofoxijumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5a61eca1c---41085564800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859886a55de---44873888717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/18074649448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/puzuzimepiloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa81d0a2be6---79521122447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southeastern61.com/clients/0/07/0748cf78e2268043913ae7c14e09e996/File/41691921145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e49b4c01891f216ff4409cc0f4df62bc/49528187816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=do+you+need+a+memory+card+to+play+gamecube+games+on+the+wiiPDF 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_off000116f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F1 11404 bytes
SHA-256: f19d981ce152073fc5e63de59716ec1992523f14f1990b9f27aef42fe3b986af
font_01_sfnt_off00013143.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13143 17232 bytes
SHA-256: 8d6d8cff43ebdd76c0cb172cda9a17fb8ad8706e86756186335b40bc4fb7ee1d
font_02_sfnt_off00015ea5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EA5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1