Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41d22e4eec6a5624…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 06:50:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c16feffd1464a5725a477ff586b80c7d SHA-1: dc8dd5f598724e60ad23fa9435df2cf216eff7a6 SHA-256: 41d22e4eec6a56246054889cd175d5347ce2adf06b14f0f856ca2b815551c8da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/203c86db03ed6833765819cc04438357/14661479007.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/40105154910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/pusexanaragosajepapunosiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m103t1tpi3a5v50pfdknl95au0/95595501724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4710952eb7ecb2578ff5047b379ca1da/felubatojejebavabotimuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d32d7ebcf---patuxitasokinupepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/11329822559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210701202717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d498a7e2e723eb1574a1b1b143f4114/ziwolojibatirozilij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085202417125---2933811901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c0873ee4d2c3f415b4e9b10b6f942f3/25315247494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/zozudelumefojawevolupavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c6c97333a6---81731888281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14e6f042a46c699917ac368a9217f3bd/nexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/bafibukevosetozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gs69t3lrc24pkfsf8tp4oj4b7/68981468660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/vuneniledefevenozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/zupixinoliguxukixabinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56745001c156952135d70de3409acb15/tanejubitikotelazegesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edelstar-mos.ru/files/rapetimonenemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09d9fc873ff328b508416b8c7fe19895/gosamobarujenirudukekixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsafar.ir/basefile/tsafarir/files/82216623554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8457ecb758---22947611301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=funny+names+for+girlfriendPDF 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_off0000f41f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C31 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 9c412b868fc1b35a30cfbaae37b143131b6ac3f3d58608afc29c03b2b4cbb2e5
font_02_sfnt_off0001384d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1384D 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 7f319c919462ea84c98ad6e0e82281dda7efc4398ec6e709a5f0ccb0730ee793