Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41692c48485003a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 23:53:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 76546030603b01ab21d041ee1568e168 SHA-1: f19bde4fac89795fecbf0d5d26c63aaa4ea86dd7 SHA-256: 41692c48485003a71fd5fd653cb2a888b05465ec2aa41f1b54487c7ad424378f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm PDF. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38270bc5815e5e540add1724c3e8ec39/dabusimetowamovetan.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/92088018278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pigeranefalapezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608251d674641---37349209860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7648aa3e999360e4d62d015feb9c82f/9752416457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf33bb2f182---fewojapisizipem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/90650847111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerrya.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10980447489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kcequipment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6045727cb25b28187f34adb339bf4060/kufodekapoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/sixajufupawuwelawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889cca2ac61---gitekoxijodupunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksi-system.pl/editorfiles/file/dagowonojasixaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080be7041774---89537285532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6e2dc650a---tixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/99974166017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayou.tw/uploadpic/files/202109080232548138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimcert.net/E/file/93425452280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de8db320fd---77883818899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800ed2648a1---jonazojaparu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/wekiwutomurem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/535eaa18693fc68a52ac74bbe29680e1/83280708673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanillasky-ch.com/images/files/pavinemasosotomijavikuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wcd.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43163325585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=drum+coordination+exercises+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_off0000eb4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB4C 18884 bytes
SHA-256: a7ab94215514d1bf89609af41da738b55ec4eb223e8d00fc61615a9d59ab924b
font_01_sfnt_off00011c60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13477 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 2702413dccc2e1db8339541cfed573625a882557176429c9d66178eceb84bc32