Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41dedc617450544a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 09:29:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 4d04e78c760aec9a287cbbdd53cbb4ce SHA-1: 06493b450055a97b550d4a8b0214da672df4b97d SHA-256: 41dedc617450544a1b3ce3bf896fb703a7d52035bc2e7359ea056f01d26f6ddf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or link farms hosted on disposable domains. ClamAV identified this as a phishing trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The primary function appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content through a network of links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://pressvaluation.net/userfiles/file/74293959275.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd84b90632---58171169441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mprime.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14169286080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kajsanordstrom.com/userfiles/files/9901704509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5f4a9f80e97f9927bb7b4e39cd35267/38527222468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/somivakiduzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75e624573b2ce76e3c253b9216c8d631/49034151450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/baxetape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59390f1cbaf730360dc88e72d520125f/suwexulemutunimuvomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf45ce10ef---vanimitinemadovogideki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5f1d30fec---3836732716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6ecc37f40e---sujegukisisajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f93770ff78---wovefetajamifijuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saatgaamkansarasamaj.com/admin/uploads/files/faregegakudezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202106file/2021061309261570554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/426a4fc34b685a696c1b0430957bed5c/16657831414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buildinggodskingdom.com/webcms/file/zolikaguburuwiwidijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0cb1f2b027---40481038986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076713e1be4f---19864056008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796610561d4---36090833497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c76om7utgs1qd5nn5bs6f2rgj3/94494815773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5738d125a804c3ec38fb1a16e3067a0/nudofinarepaten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/85047522580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/66623424772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jujrleauncs2ggnirbjn9ph9r4/70426100608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d248490cd---sezujaloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=graphing+an+exponential+function+and+its+asymptote+calculatorPDF 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_off0000ec03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001041a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1041A 11424 bytes
SHA-256: 0c7158282b661cac0db06c7764631058419364e96c6804e3f1470de985360288
font_02_sfnt_off00011eb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB9 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 35048ced95490b6eafd3d6cc37281afc9776d1f1dd0639ed1554d7d84927687b