Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41c2fbba6b690a11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:48:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 48ac0c6ef5832aa37a1d8888c09710a5 SHA-1: 23b0c7577ad72b4586e2d47b193787a84001b449 SHA-256: 41c2fbba6b690a119eafdb22c55c388959cd278da874147ddf24d0dd11f2726e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple distinct hosts hosting PDF files via form upload plugins further supports the malicious nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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 http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b10b98bf3---65828749154.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3abbeb9eb399122bbf5a675a0af05df/67646146283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/165hpkbn9cathbjkkt0pgmr50m/ninaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/68629849752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a346e334d50---xoguminegopizamapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607754625f4e9---67823126061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/835528e3f7bbc782b42547343a1c0b35/86341588495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/mixovamufalejuzabirajusil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2e0532a124---16780405533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newsru.md/upload/userfiles/files/91632709760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/zogijukebojotadinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45822732316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orrizon.ru/images/file/63497429171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bbabd3b8f---darumupuvox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/depadajilirudanapareki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djarkitek.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/gatesejofebavovobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inse.us/uploads/images//files/kaxozegasezokepowopegoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/99210665157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2c29aa46e---98508274228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b214a953264---19539532406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097868c424ee---zefone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/zelodit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/26827713481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074565da4069---dowesunimafaxumid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c606cf420d6---64814960039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=biochemistry+question+bank+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF192 20088 bytes
SHA-256: fe2e3870a9e928543413f083a2cceb4e66611475fa9df280595c8a714f6222ac
font_01_sfnt_off00012491.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12491 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CA2 16244 bytes
SHA-256: fddcbe21bdf9fb2753729b4ab5b26d7a3fbb01e3fe51d41ab0725360e25c189d
font_03_sfnt_off00015291.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15291 11484 bytes
SHA-256: 6c3fcf3fb4d04c704988056097074047fc5cdbbe11b8cc0b131547399e75a4ef