Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41dfaf644ec2eafd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 06:25:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 923b79e963408697b1971e51c64d8792 SHA-1: 09c6924d03d6b1e9ba039982c3f0016e9543320c SHA-256: 41dfaf644ec2eafddbd6ce665632aaafe569b3e1edc8de2af22481ce30ec6b7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting strongly indicates a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9865

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://jackinthegymtpe.com/uploads/files/202109050933303588.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bengalroys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36460314028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sdja26i2d7glhonm05jgkujjn2/46351141499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelstore.ru/upload/files/45091753154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_2EDB77536191AA04.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gijoxulagar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136b99e9f1af---xobegisemulinidokoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/xavasiwelujugokositob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuoredicane.it/userfiles/files/81669372784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greensketch.in/userfiles/file/14494568208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymfly.com/aym_image/files/likixiwuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiensa.com/UserFiles/File/21200511751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersenergy.com/UserFiles/file/sunudiwazenonodazugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/84824801106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarexperten.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/46564252969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorestagno.eu/userfiles/files/80434730171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/75189847419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142d4c3b0d7e---21905721491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingdove.tw/uploads/files/202109140650122298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/vumaxorifarojupukavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1f2e862ad4dab7a8b89be03013f3fa2/xasutesusufeluwujazoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highendteen.com/userfiles/files/26272296072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26937137971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320bdc9c192---kafugepiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecb483ca10e104d1d9b4ea0a25fb7b45/9432647877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bushurov.ru/images/files/56126666961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca17294460e42aeb97f62a531a5a243d/xesipunevar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=brave+new+world+original+pdfPDF 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_off00011f44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13756 19376 bytes
SHA-256: 8d2a0509b8a4138d925645661b69bbf19c48df0bb6126186992980a52c29819f
font_02_sfnt_off000169e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x169E6 10612 bytes
SHA-256: a858661866c03eccf16369f4fedb097909d2b59690dfa986a0571e042a8ff0af

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