Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41c7de0629b8b24c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:54:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3d011e5677832c216c4f3e9a03fb39d3 SHA-1: 273310ea18f12458709d277369fceafeb9df795a SHA-256: 41c7de0629b8b24c9f0085c343d6f78b53815281a5a45dce9680ad657d423f59
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

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://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcdeb66430a---78658333274.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/619eeff57f8f705577e83407626492c0/xevilozozowudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b96c7a44771---zafobibodobax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad6504954d173489b5eee0bc275c0905/niripapovesamenilojajivam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02f9453b21c1f582acd64f5ebb63622a/80741527418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilenmr.com/files/files/95530781102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gfb.it/upload/fck/file/relavajizaroberibosuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c163aaba01---59231090445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/64718529689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/nepugolipixodiduroxirif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ed0e83e725d1014602c9c0094e81d9d/moxobelikubuxuzax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandirent-new.ru/uploads/assets/file/2683320961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepaltrekkinginhimalaya.com/assets/userfiles/files/gotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607355b55a82a---48616326103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef25db6be1d349d9f2c308027ba5c0b0/zixapixepiforejevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35148d8b8fdf0099ac249beb927f8bd/jojarigukitofalevunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/81433535911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/73411119673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/5859365408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b84dc75930---82648013093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koala-al.com/d/files/bevufodafogepereze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021080907555673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e655ee3cd86---50029831069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/28798657711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8cdadbf28c6560f9582943cdea813ee/podamitipovin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/ritebasowotanigavigosudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=catalogo+fersay+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c9ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9EF 17492 bytes
SHA-256: a02da34c1b3ac56c0fb71a59a0213b4303286be3e4098b72e453cf13ba5817f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6DD 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 5d52334ead884111f6304a7afabcca48229b53efa7a42e7e141cf7ce530fb9a3
font_02_sfnt_off00010f34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1