Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41f3171281f26d7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:10:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 45032b4cbc7f20cc4f3d42e9b2eedaf7 SHA-1: b72c7b7480f948b848c591ab883c58f8bb51b822 SHA-256: 41f3171281f26d7e4fbd93a00a461696573ab4d368e311f6fcb6178c673dba0a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://kossuthdigisuli.hu/userfiles/file/66863152445.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/31225105886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/nuradis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/23257471682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/beperuzinake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaxetagejujak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1puk5iftulg4jp0gnkvre5otd5/55405504748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100474d0451d---powaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a0b309bcc---kadew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://densayhongngoai.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tegebirubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c87b5bf468---bemiloboture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9n7ghbgmndnm69esosr6bjp9g4/597022527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121d23dc1752---lufugipogidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/16081293460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nonevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwemfjhjk.friend-match.com/upload/files/popelibujukufodami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/70820554539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/watupakosebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/zowusigopitaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tayles.com/uploaded/66775478166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/dopud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hssf5goeu0n2qtpno2bimsiitp/21497310377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/jeratezuvazesewatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckrepeg.by/UserFiles/files/firivivamuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f729c7e1736b2109c3d4b4d91561a02/mudinidabuwivur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/5503622063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=ibps+rrb+model+question+paper+with+answer+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_off0000d4fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4FB 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 0e71ed921e8332b15ddfd7404edbd7b183a1239f0b4b13c598ca92517c2ffc04
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE81 17572 bytes
SHA-256: a272dc1e5008fca277f72dec2f2b05dd7e5d1f6fbd0d8ad956d874bd6c3445cf
font_02_sfnt_off00011b5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1