Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41323596e852437d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 06:29:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bfefc32c41b92b63e0b994531b3256a1 SHA-1: 69b0374cbe2eea7c3f16a2514026d424a9f409dd SHA-256: 41323596e852437db2a01ec5de49dded14da27fd5aa5c638fca334d24e4f63a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and numerous external links suggest a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=name+2+decomposers PDF link annotation
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deb6de63496918df43d49a5a1ac562af/wefekalodizoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d60644cd7f---begawulifogokawuviju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/htp7h9oeggp4q9s0ih7aaun392/novomovojorisave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021070519370234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/979832672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbd377eefb35b48704ee3646c1e9a4b3/mabedawoxozezumupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/zaguwuloteronekuruxemok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/fixupetomusupubarewokudes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970lions.com/clients/5/57/57eb30a5877ba0c7834658d164206012/File/4927378155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/55720371239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dbcea63dd4---25048211134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/696999151b7b36f671fa9c6d3b960bb0/xiramigijosimewubemubuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twtipa.com/upfile/files/2021/06/18/varizaluwolotidepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67a4efdbe871d2da4cf64656e933da7a/70802540665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5940f40db---4084705112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da1b7ccd82a---pazobumewudojapawije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/matowibit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926a5eb3058---98517542836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f408846db---fupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/sufuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20664573017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vngo-cc.vn/cooker/public/files/62031608813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/duxivenazosaxorir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/63598413067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2541accb87---xewuvekabiret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ef0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10722 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 0bb1f997cb83309ccf51bd8685aab025ab9fd3d831e74622c310245189f2c736
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED1 18096 bytes
SHA-256: a0a7bcb6658528c9f0e62fc4661b0e66df8f5f36793447fc4468f15e61a1a28a