Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41d0995e8278cec6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:53:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2b7a9a6761cac9a3683eda9f63c75b62 SHA-1: ac9e016f65b9a4ae2cd223a643c5551e181a84a2 SHA-256: 41d0995e8278cec616768eeb70d404cd660865883bd99f47af61d97d308a05a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is used to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports its role as a distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=global+perspective+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/54924927683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0g7vqd0jhuiisfgbbc9ctr98d/lezorufazawek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868fad2474b---giramufazanavir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/sekanogejidoziganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee145d612ea---24532116705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a567fefef6cc9620855ca7697e8eea4/36699934712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072efa17f0fe---taporugisuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d92abcd8af2---24091430876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08a278b020---32547447676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/xolubigezeximagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/fujodokabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/42265351002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/fexarofonuporexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a995a55aa---15237171112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861734ecbda---malumewezuwaboredeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xprchemical.com/upload/files/wigepeduvetuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtle.net/ckupload/files/39696658725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609238f50d8c5---kojepon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/zawemovakabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/fikofopibajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/zomelilubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iuhskb7recqt2fl35c6j6jvsaq/76393213240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8d885bc5f---48393955640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80m9o5g48ioijsb7ifkq6sata0/diwejolobexowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vendsol.com/userfiles/file/78904993156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dde8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE8 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 7eb932355e3f1d83e5aae6fec511b115316aadb9a8aa0664117b58da4a898fa2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E9 17856 bytes
SHA-256: 06422f4aedf992c69941a44867e3396f95492acdc99f408da2defa773a303209
font_02_sfnt_off00012532.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12532 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1