Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41d8278278f05422…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:33:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5d884bfbaa2739d9f6a1b9b83d17f320 SHA-1: 2d31206bf36fb0096a4e55b27dd4e2d3f4fbab2f SHA-256: 41d8278278f054220b9eb33835c16ce002835d3fc1b4115256a23c82be327d01
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF exploits often involves embedded JavaScript for malicious redirection or payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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 http://namngonviet.vn/user-/files/38096020238.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6qtcf1ejnhv9fhv5a2gikus6g9/97724115814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0p03e2rkj70ehclrp44h30mj84/bisopimox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e02a5e3605---49287166064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czpohledavky.cz/userfiles/files/91718810796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezszilvia.com/images/uploaded/file/24990121386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161196edc0f99d---saxizabutoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/96578441239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daejonggyoyc.com/userfiles/file/20210831184813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/83196630688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/xabir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/018fd7545479b8e5d21294b2271de218/74583640453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/532086353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b6f53a2f8---baxijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/72502836696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hq2sr3os31lj1qggjcmfk19053/92354913488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/modud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/kesupur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b22c7c2ae---tuwedetegejog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamila.vn/luutru/files/gufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5c3422f55---kilapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f433613445---fidepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb596634a6---99079636491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=reducing+a+pdf+filePDF 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_off0000d005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD005 10456 bytes
SHA-256: eab475430408691fa901b9c90dd15ade8452a20c0a818e91083521afbb7e6f44
font_01_sfnt_off0000e795.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE795 18064 bytes
SHA-256: 1a663077d01390ca6c76e88a146a11c3931c8203d9e21db48c279b7c49d7c3c7
font_02_sfnt_off0001167f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1167F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1