Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41d5c4489bcf8e1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 18:05:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ea1f2594fd1a702ad9afa27d3bf79322 SHA-1: e346d30fd1d477e137dd5032b495df20e5b3f6ab SHA-256: 41d5c4489bcf8e1d68c220f0c7c420009aa2e94205ef41e8113c74b9f76f37b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The presence of external URI heuristics and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' rule indicate the document's primary function is to direct users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=use+intimation+in+a+sentence
    • http://clinivetmadonnadirosa.eu/userfiles/files/80754234817.pdf
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/tonafinowivijejefeviz.pdf
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/doxasipejos.pdf
    • http://florylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/40797561766.pdf
    • http://wirheiraten.de/images/file/53694125597.pdf
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab856b3c25e---gijaxum.pdf
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39c0000e3252e491d9ded91ff43453d4/juzutivof.pdf
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/422081524.pdf
    • https://kueapem.com/contents//files/xumoj.pdf
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/89905513712.pdf
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aac9597e134e52837964a98d41609a82/laruzaxuleragodaw.pdf
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608839ffd90fc---wejovori.pdf
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160973ed374b63---pekupurifoledujemowesinon.pdf
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78277823024.pdf
    • http://zonweringbelgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27378984183.pdf
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fecd893039957910b9487706cfa8c02/7202864423.pdf
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74976c2cf9---sejuwodatekofakinosul.pdf
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/24015274715.pdf
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e485a02f903172b7bbb05624e33c1b71/gedul.pdf
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/gogemegilokilefuwubekob.pdf
    • http://datavincity.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/65660988708.pdf
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/50112959180.pdf
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///50417191946.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f130.bin
74c965d8efee87dbbf3f890a8891db04c210a6851d94b2c5d33bfd6ac2423cab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF130 17068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d9d.bin
0a68ecbd06dae7c4399def901665905ca79ccaab02513e1b72e765f2e32e544c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9D 10252 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000134ad.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134AD 16792 bytes