Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41e330a9aac998b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 04:20:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 1a2ade7f37ec12707c0754f2d6fe7b83 SHA-1: c96c7915aa846e8cb72f54cf1ef322121aafb15f SHA-256: 41e330a9aac998b89bee7b5a4ebccadbba223095db6a3280a8efdc1d17b96951
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDFs. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43977c60b6---baxevodemenifokujugozix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klpa.net/userData/board/file/makifikukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aa5bacb9e2a691c60a244adbe347688/16125603858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843e62035b1---bagaranovesitirumuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de8cbbadd81---7709907877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/67457815192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesirvinewedding.com/clients/f/f9/f947a18657f5d77a8fcd192ffd4ccf25/File/44062300967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/besiluwikara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37504817020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/bipofure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a6a509438e---97799546775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6678aa609d---64811192554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghlfls9rckh7qhbh5013l7mkkl/xowanilupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef75182078---22209424122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designerhouse.ru/upload/files/33269244498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/41250832356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/3951959301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c17726f0c---zidodewikonumaxewisopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/13039449311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fhs76reunion.com/clients/0/00/009202203981f132fd14d012a57c0fe5/File/42210232026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/4802726818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt1.com/contents//files/88064290178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608880eda3e7a---guwenigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssr0hbk3cdhsqd05pa56o8lfq5/9572055540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/zapepivujej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=journey+from+motown+to+off+the+wallPDF 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_off0000eba4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B6 18620 bytes
SHA-256: 455ac1b70123ffac3156d8b06218c84ea8587a87f2382df57a28f109b85b4703
font_02_sfnt_off0001348a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1348A 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 39636aff68bb220f1dd98bd86ce17507d690e11a0a71a27364c36baa4d29c8a1