Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41f466c1b3a231b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:18:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c00bfa7a27ae986dc5672babcaaf9471 SHA-1: 323220a8e6f48bd5b5aa9e72388b3c012b97f1f1 SHA-256: 41f466c1b3a231b484811165bc6378dd750d015f8dfc02f08fe46584d80bd03b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised websites and link farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The file's structure and the presence of external links indicate it is likely intended to redirect users to malicious content, potentially as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=c+by+discovery+4th+edition+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/15216902829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17e74378bbc14b01b3af5b1fd0999dcf/ragikubatisegumusovijude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenfontaene.de/idata/wufetojuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebo52.ru/uploads/files/57139595377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c98e131765---83032289048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/jesevibafufewofigel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7488e384d---78738474819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62b6ccf2613e32839c7cd87c708ed533/2115537792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netisiletisim.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/pimalufutonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transmilenio.net/datamont/userfiles/file/jalakalanofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lienming-rubber.com/uploads/files/202108132313457309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3e0cc1da7b8cd685d1d9b59c0f20329/kaxogumikexegefet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ac7cff0be93b6e5822e96d411bbc5e6/75827550427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/detafajuvivamonataku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fogojiguwozovesox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelschuurmans.nl/images/uploads/file/jofevagibuzuzopifelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/70100940564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36510645683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kppzp.pl/userfiles/file/98348401674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ee58836b3caf7b0cbdee0a5c6ffb80c/bezepilivoda.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_off0000c796.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC796 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFAD 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 2899751624c6be206e148ef8c50424bda4e6607b9505ada7f5ebfdc88e2724b4
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9DB 16788 bytes
SHA-256: f7acbc29e6813a3a1f087206e482d4226a40f7a0bb8211a9f5dfd8dd092b7b91