Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41ba66d2b190691c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:04:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1071d9125826d488bffb1659cb298c26 SHA-1: 17c07742ceb95e374a3c1e36fb3c56a4af7c1080 SHA-256: 41ba66d2b190691c22e7da67f4b8e7b1bce2a4d922db770c49aa087f458041c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The PDF structure and link farm indicate it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81a033ff876f5d3d0bd237501140d072/nuxewolisumuzixofenute.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://polletnv.be/uploads/files/bukiditetuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/26786476417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d10a3a8146---85443573885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b184af30c7a---31828299995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780ed52742a---69192019025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/725a1f7c880aad68da068bdbd34d5ec5/gixisunufiwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021062120570486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/71781154952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/62149271970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d6bbc4243e97f46a2a6a12d29363ab1/56040117261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bebd7e571e5---70615548622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/luzirojibotenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/zeborewelijejitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09b145aceb80f5b76770427eafa5762d/desobekafawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g7domak7jn5e37vj09mooclg90/71924755860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915711c0653---lujokowupudujezirito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/mapigidusirovadewevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7df9374624---80486287774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/dazowufegosepalajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirdining.com/uploads/files/xodugiradak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/davopufukabekavusududobok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=play+it%27s+been+a+long+dayPDF 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_off0000f807.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF807 17056 bytes
SHA-256: 6c557b51947b3849b2034e319d89e1dc4958c081c553bf8812cbf534c833407b
font_01_sfnt_off000124cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ce4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CE4 10612 bytes
SHA-256: e6f5b10777cd6e27a6d260761c5590c4aba27fb0e37a96878de503d462197956