Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41e2aa4c60949e97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 08:22:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fa0eb3233eaa052797e7887fee4538a3 SHA-1: bc02e8952620977b19d234bd5200e36947139981 SHA-256: 41e2aa4c60949e976229c071b64d3f02da56efcace2a075a7c34fdc89009c917
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a tactic to host malicious content or redirect users. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tamil+dubbed+barbie+movies PDF link annotation
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864e4a580c3---lezujigesetesemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbgprpk7biiq.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95907393474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/197da7134a87636db680e4943d21bd35/62445115661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/30907227454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827e3ea96ee---jamobiwizowavumodamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088801a7b2a4---punabojadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/famogozajozugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/363aab7512500154667daeeb3e14734a/mutititaraturerimile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609862a3ccb4a---78116953267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lq066bp6k8b40tcge5rcop10c/27462372366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kudusde.org/resimler/files/53984787648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5843d26db1---72807132084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/clakptimhqulla49u40n6a5kt1/zulororuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fcc69d8bfe---17700920985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/23571015299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/81573598733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210619195840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fbgvqcf0pgat1te79djeukkk0/lovozobojoguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786838e264e---panivexonatadoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/87462504499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d2f006f98---7115695738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/misexavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/98597932466.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_off0000d5f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE08 16920 bytes
SHA-256: dca5dd067906411144650f62081756c3a4f036ab04508c2336afa44a7b4e5b6c
font_02_sfnt_off00011a48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A48 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 09fe7784f99c000967826ee37796fa512e9f39c04e1cf37cabde85a6ccdcd9a2