Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41961deeda350a8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:21:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 366216a3f2ac09d2954c90bc91a0b47c SHA-1: 856505c1e3de21a36a48e3489649dde8844f82dd SHA-256: 41961deeda350a8a75b5fdb93f6931891d88ed52419ad7b95e84f3e98a0777d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. While no scripts were extracted, the nature of the links suggests the PDF is intended to lure users to external sites for further malicious activity, likely phishing or malware delivery.

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://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f1b5ae818896e048cf84b74f458c185/97720441122.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c125e5c0840c0b41a29e99bf675e68e8/vukavikezise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/63265641198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c9f2b0d39---lumejamudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d46d873c59---pudawisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091da612137a---fuseketedemijafita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cafe630c6---fororamefadogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/dizedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qazaqbanki.kz/data/content/files/39531671027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staceyasp.com/UserFiles/file/80138689399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/81525764687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f353e8999ce1de4cd13b4b64f2cce80f/lanevipaluba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/filegutamuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/xegoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a062a2e7519---jojafigogovodavidaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ttmqm65nbba2ut44fosg1teoja/57883700774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0763a572edc80b51c9442f1554be33fe/nexavababuzadujexafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5564cd524c33ca82f57f818e89eaa2cd/suzabuforerixabozaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpokebar.com/uploads/files/15745329404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863c1a8d2e4---30471385803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/683ef9ba9732b20bd3f5ca709a109bb6/82708236350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/37984270405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/lipelebojaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210617171141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/fuwevotupazupixekot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=bible+contents+old+and+new+testamentPDF 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_off0000f941.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF941 18108 bytes
SHA-256: 7867955354c1394dc077aa03244a2625ef47ab5862b3a56b2599c5ca2bb878a3
font_01_sfnt_off00012881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12881 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014098.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14098 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 9ce4a90738c615e97e125159414cd878f155e8cb01aafa88f5b68dbc5f54526b