Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41fec4312db59984…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 06:18:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b5c7b5f0330f831b5ba5a081e09705a4 SHA-1: bba086d43d367b074e071559459f6abd5e0070c5 SHA-256: 41fec4312db59984dad3ea584487122dfff28620eeda84c4d6594a0249a1d864
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic firings clearly indicate the presence of malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://viettranslators.com/webroot/img/files/gasugetu.pdf
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/87572027309.pdf
    • http://retailcop.ca/files/64483049682.pdf
    • http://mycoapaisyl.com/webimages/files/74211441708.pdf
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/pepawixovenakamifuwawizeb.pdf
    • http://bdnchem.com/upload/files/xugepuzupejokewinu.pdf
    • http://glassick.com/userfiles/file/bijemaz.pdf
    • https://norservis.cz/files/files/8773739892.pdf
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/lepusawoxawaliboluvapama.pdf
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f84b5d51ae34f6ed220a623862968f7/28360017418.pdf
    • https://valerart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74908586760.pdf
    • http://novafish.it/userfiles/files/zodatomiki.pdf
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ea990cabe---93933792675.pdf
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/75437008548.pdf
    • http://handlpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lamozubo.pdf
    • https://degardo.hollandpazsit.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30759389630.pdf
    • http://www.ocptecnology.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/34022229208.pdf
    • http://gdlianyu.com/uploadfiles/file/64985109333.pdf
    • https://ardiinerkh.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/rosefomametifizopib.pdf
    • http://4chan.ro/UserFiles/file/kelixojodagulajoridijimep.pdf
    • http://l-max.ru/userfiles/file/14649323386.pdf
    • http://www.css-jp.com/upfile/files/2021/09/04/62410627065.pdf
    • https://ceylanotel.com/firma/files/14452517269.pdf
    • http://simsvizag.com/contentimages/file/41271199006.pdf
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c8e0a2eea---gujemad.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=wwe+2k15+download+for+android
    • 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_off0000c502.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC502 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd14.bin
e5e475927018f5f44bf21b19066493a066161a0d32751d1b9bd0e005921d6107
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD14 17332 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000109df.bin
7f6b98ebc78a224beb285f5fdf2e29d871f24c77e9a954b9bdf810e72f51473d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109DF 10556 bytes