Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41d2a91baffb86d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:10:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: da90d51ede60dfc5c3346a348d17f23a SHA-1: d4b6531b8cb3fa6718c1220ff9381ca8b98c1ab1 SHA-256: 41d2a91baffb86d6f0578a882fa15b801f08bf4090d17919abb82743c8706f3c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document's primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious or compromised external resources, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 5

  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gothic+3+alternative+balancing+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30442262664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/fobitizepese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capri.lt/userfiles/files/tosexifefepufot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae320dc1b3---26822937685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b10aaf31e90---laboxevipafalelojanaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionebriciole.it/public/file/lapima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/71509577686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvmdigital.gr/files/files/77473196553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4eb8fd747baf3ab952b0273c6a5820b/wevasuxokigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0932b2a4083c534a314796c0ce000e29/79050024801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltarents.com/upload/ckfinder/files/51710743911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c3b461eb9---tidewuvesixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/65168741083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf76035c3cec6fbf1e360e74fc544ca8/gowetotaximuzeriwonuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.com/userfiles/files/tusedazukox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6110d7f5fc3ae57800b8b7306f699cd/57441398417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23360525643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f625cd87bd9e3dd7113eb9a7be78cf6c/12426563063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashhadgardi724.ir/basefile/mashhadgardi724/files/78106283557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archgeo-leszno.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/wixazawidib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/xavijupoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotechike.com/files/files/pusozumadujunekeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l266nd6co83mgoje3cieusbq24/83696832547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44d556be4362c0a9b7dff9618fc02024/nukorore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.com/uploads/files/jofapesivesuwegox.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_off0001428f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1428F 19292 bytes
SHA-256: 73aee3ee5aafa1b491b329cd42c13f1934d613cc38eed284fc4e620c19f0e089
font_01_sfnt_off000174cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x174CC 11024 bytes
SHA-256: dc1130baddc3b218b205b8776711d15dbc41d0cc3a206c2ef57035093c0e0529
font_02_sfnt_off00018e5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18E5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1