Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41b3591b49688640…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 18:55:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6b57ae844c78d52d47afec138e7da369 SHA-1: 2ebff366dbd86c0d70c4dac4e850c899ec4806f1 SHA-256: 41b3591b49688640349276cf1b3545d5b6eb8116dea3680e5f00644433355f4b
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and exhibits characteristics of a browser extension installation lure. While no scripts were directly extracted, the document's structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely to download further payloads or steal credentials. The presence of numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb6d03c42d---wilidiviwajexupezu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084848d656ce---dejotedimal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/vujezenaxabeped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusheng-vietnam.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/farivuberawema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inncredel.com/uploads/66636019949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd1e8cc80c367179d83293dd3dac5d76/jepujevifeluxubam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/37526304156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morabia.fi/images/file/40449312653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/66209986343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-29/20210529182749532931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7270134de146b1859e4d3aab3852b27/dofuvomofimavenizunesude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6vk0a0bincde3g2b801tsvf9u/naditafusegatubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3suntech.com/UploadFile/file/20210627073349305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf008bb033---gibadosafefijogujege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honda-vo.com/upload/file/dadulenizudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9634a7c0d77b71765ccd68def40336a3/23358210803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a3f7998904---14595595635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078cd0b59e16---rigisetokimam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theurbanthinktank.com/files/kirizenejugezutowurekamuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/50862047501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f4820d0df---lipulafezarewawagalixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=want+in+tagalogPDF 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_off00010d5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D5F 17968 bytes
SHA-256: 67204df68c9d1f662c72a3c97c4e9839812db04b4c5431c16ea12e7e156daf5a
font_01_sfnt_off00013bd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BD7 9876 bytes
SHA-256: db6d9a015510237554ae1dc7c665be021608cd99792c1ed6c9a6ebde5422abf7
font_02_sfnt_off000151af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1