Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41f3e2da8e26c6a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 07:51:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b0884690a5f14c28eb834af395de76ad SHA-1: 9bdb00e433895f75247df298a29c9c657521a877 SHA-256: 41f3e2da8e26c6a7bd05899ed7dfbdc7b304f2ccc8fff405269c19c04c22926b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters in some URLs indicate an attempt to obscure the final destination and track user clicks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60c543895b0ee9f764ce097f7c2dc4fc/lozaxumusuwaluzedu.pdf
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/18652948479.pdf
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b84fdadc029---gegowipesupibanetejunivo.pdf
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/puzafojakasojodu.pdf
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f542584a3f---xofojevatekamer.pdf
    • http://praxis-greve-polley.de/web/editor/files/zibapujifo.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8fec4c79a3---40069949058.pdf
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/66910782148.pdf
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/513937qekeq2s6v0soqbloshj4/vepijomufep.pdf
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921f5559180---73218582271.pdf
    • http://donaldbermanmaimonidesgolf2021.com/clients/0/0d/0d43fbb8ff91cab41fa1b056c0d912a9/File/44084148111.pdf
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/22562704565.pdf
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/83263353168.pdf
    • https://locktactyuma.com/userfiles/file/29099039775.pdf
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/064b6b97fa47e586a2b0c9fda31d59c1/tumatunewosuwuwafax.pdf
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210620180321797296.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5q1bkf7nkv9pvqaee3alnaf684/66749755166.pdf
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/wirigogiserig.pdf
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076986915e58---pebopadesajetogosir.pdf
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/muzofovijijozikawokeriv.pdf
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad763a1a86d---87983203281.pdf
    • https://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sodididol.pdf
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9535339347.pdf
    • http://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/vegonerexematujulatovusi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=seeds+in+a+plant
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfc6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC6 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7dd.bin
b80e32289825008a55d9d01330f1fa572dec6b65c91aa030d95040451357b4d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7DD 10240 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010ee6.bin
624ac5e27c1426a0e03ef7449dcdf1c40a8576511dc806e08e7091fe18468cc6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE6 17304 bytes