Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41ce9c417090f831…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 16:37:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: dcd13895676112b69375d66fc0fce53f SHA-1: 1726bfc3b41283a0ecacb68540950cff56a0d247 SHA-256: 41ce9c417090f831efcad47fc17156c818a5a7587653dace258f633029ba81c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware delivery scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/976af06df74c9fce3f5b5e1c772af6c9/91615618008.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://groupekineconcept.com/userfiles/file/53759963719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec9e2c6a18---sirafakipamaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51086311277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asremajazi.com/uploads/files/voxeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/8680786773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heatandgas.com/EditorImages/file/fodixefogutevuxoxavazigug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greddy.com/admin/common/ckfinder/userfiles/File/61737497714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/1696518605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatherjansch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67117781890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5eb63d8403841e27100e1a8f1253c5f/68688051694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f00d910443---susafivakopezefidodawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e3608ab1d---nagabuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xorisuginajaselubiwagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinaarc.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54992019497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ottopianos.nl/files/fuxebikigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upnbkk.com/file_media/file_image/file/legovanekakirizakut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refah4ter.info/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/15874934680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arredamentoambienti.it/img/file/komagivodijagatuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beysukonaklari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12462654865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/84620770061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhkygroup.com/luutru/files/ratavotazasofulukakozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmi.lu/userfiles/files/pivoropadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haraj-alqunfudhah.com/userfiles/file/peviwakarosag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogwarts.ru/sites/default/files/file/rarivokubugulurob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=gta+vice+city+unlimited+moneyPDF 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_off0000cf60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE772 17316 bytes
SHA-256: ea857acb53c84f8e885d8403f643ec86951f8147a17023c2fb9f3cc7034cad84
font_02_sfnt_off0001142c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1142C 10584 bytes
SHA-256: d6d7c2bc2ca4315b5ffa78acc0b662f5315467fcbc3c6bfc22242698a2d184e1