Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 415e1c736482285f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:49:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ea2a11a5e4ef0f2f801e642628d5df83 SHA-1: 874e85b5e6d7a3b362c8b1941055dd31aa06da5f SHA-256: 415e1c736482285faf7c8606bf903d5f063541a17a662c6c4c557c36fcc6a3e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

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 https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cb12e53e15b867df6cb38dad4146b56/nawirimavum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67aa7a88bfbf4065f91327d488b31c14/fubosazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160963d212a8d9---kuxurejupawokija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrtaspol.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30687874432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/69497470360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df555c9af2d7771c52b4b5650e284f57/25002258408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigonford3s.com/uploads/2021-08-29/images/files/69153292789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/21300500408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/muzifobokumibekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adacu.org/userfiles/file/20210825000007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4665b13d50---34574075813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smcertificationservices.com/userfiles/files/tesakixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nghiencuuykhoa.com/uploads/userfiles/file/dudemogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bomtvplus.com/data/board/file/20210522211121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dineflon.com//files/dokabilezevegitirovunoraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1393c6d6fb---59605026899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/95267153134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/357d327abfcc3c07e65a2aa095c5c7b2/47822301508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/lafedajalejalabonononavup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xowiwonumopeverasejisisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/39681934444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/92686077621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814854ad862---47489851298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.latentoac.com/portal/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94cvdv9aufmjv6erb46ja733q4/72997108656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=meltdown+book+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_off0000d8a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A6 18384 bytes
SHA-256: 5081391729b425c7b1c081973b360be4cf089bfb38d55dab494c60aeb34889b1
font_01_sfnt_off000107f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012008.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12008 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 92a0c400aa2e50d4d9b4687916845b3bae4f065c83496643e88547b99b8d9fe3