Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41bc3e76b4e2172a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

181.7 KB Created: 2021-08-11 17:52:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 481422305d51aa010569cdfe310c8fc1 SHA-1: da778228f9eb1211706a435f557d3eced8bdebca SHA-256: 41bc3e76b4e2172adfbfb39c6740affe46767769a969f0b20e6a466e0843d1bb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://coffee33.ru/archive/file/kiposunufuxif.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/60653812562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/064b2a3dc8945aeb3a8991de5bced601/48350616438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc959e2d18---gigozoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/piragimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2b103d214---55912071464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/41701398100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970lions.com/clients/5/57/57eb30a5877ba0c7834658d164206012/File/54995146499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96295110362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/35738371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learn-atdi.com/uploads/files/32542737435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb89907fcb---jemazigizuwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de622bcc4f---vadaremesukenemomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamxaydung24h.com/upload/files/temaxusojosir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af614ec52a---gusemekekixufubon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079723d1c46d---96373587645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac70093192f---tojafituvixanudasovimaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0f79ca15d---jodajorewuvopowopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birudongker.com/contents//files/36733882973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hccc252.ca/clients/e/e4/e484b38507f190a955b66748903449e1/File/57797895670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webhenevents.com/clients/868374/File/xupum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vervesimuhub.com/userfiles/file/wukoxawaraxifinizun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2688b1e8c5---95961410130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=tm-ac1900+merlin+384.62PDF 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_off00026562.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26562 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00027d79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x27D79 11156 bytes
SHA-256: afdc12f5694ae976994930fcee47314d3e808bd4e416a0e39f786c02b71a9278
font_02_sfnt_off0002978e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2978E 18424 bytes
SHA-256: dc31b14ea5b666f54d1f36a98bc63b57100534cee0d99751183299604543219f