Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41e6b837bc4efc94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

211.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 05:34:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8897c96d3a9c4dce0dec7f32b60dbc6b SHA-1: c2faa7fe2ca1dcc2956f11e1924fce2e5d13ed38 SHA-256: 41e6b837bc4efc94e73c803b0a97084e2fbc06d7b23b9266dfdd3572acbdc3f1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate that this PDF is intended to redirect users to malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9868

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+robust+estimation+and+hypothesis+testing+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/lurifugoxelazaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098dc5aea33c---61069703758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c862abecab9---85460082311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebjs16h3iih174d1sga6d4p6i2/tawewiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdh40ssvaeqi2pa1so04adhpje/budabotovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2f2d4f46f---76422364625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9596577398ffba26db1acf74e7eb37c6/73195699372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd7f274285---46140329410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24ecc1fe94222d6487e579703c969810/siwikuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/73690940825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaika.in/images/documents/files/57692239548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efce9925a3---40558576424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/080c9173ed172c85236d1eb2dffdc314/jinaxuronisukagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d36dc7fd65---24506431992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/arq9pf60kdfs4olq6f588abgnh/63644199875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b10c7a16a---5763982072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/77477693761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/13991684665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/xowejibufomogasazukodasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/8503202200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eae0b764db9f9482e4880b2345399c8c/dopuluvanezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rf0092trg6chuke51u2cbhsc1/nanafezewalulowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2k4qpv6n5dli20o1erods15ad0/26787543984.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_off0002d908.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2D908 11324 bytes
SHA-256: 428bef63883397a943f4655995e9e1f0bffbf22c0f9c5e069898596d99d5dfed
font_01_sfnt_off0002f31d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2F31D 18884 bytes
SHA-256: 6e141eb65eb5af81b7fb1e6a27dc31568b8032c1b268a0ea0f09df79ede9a952
font_02_sfnt_off00032534.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x32534 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1