Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 541d399e1d66004a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 15:33:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 362590e1fe13b20da6d1cde50a76bb79 SHA-1: ea20c1ab8a27763da6f5d9245efcbd035acc40ad SHA-256: 541d399e1d66004a33edb0781dba36c6e540b6f8aacc3864f9778b2769756ef5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature, classifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pes+2020+mobile+offline PDF link annotation
    • http://fabiocaronearchitetto.com/userfiles/files/97887579266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/55789034733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huanghels.com/filespath/files/20210901183341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/tovubuxudawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kripasec.com/userfiles/file/jufavokoxumigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a24512dbe---nevolonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/58651894105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132db8a68d50---58661415665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210904_100833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agedwedfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/zugaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzion-palice.cz/content/relokelevapulevemelemasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.net/userfiles/files/25677680755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeandrewdavison.com/download/84559135749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennycojewelry.com/userfiles/files/202109/1630501243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2109101304522201760wirx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80180ed9569228b59ef164744ab86b5e/63390404978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mklaassen.nl/images/file/wetewaraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d3f9eb3cd---gofumatuxukevatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlicentral.com/images/authors/file/43753946916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/38951431880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.com/userfiles/file/11242637975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riviera.az/userfiles/file/44483208197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yyfxsw.com/upload/files/29754245230.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_off0000cba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBA5 17344 bytes
SHA-256: 23eed473de564000a768b7cb6c9b2cc43bfa76ca9b35e8c2c307db782b86dfd8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF873 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001108a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1108A 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 889c53a9b3c10f76346e1b1b7d376ef14e5fdafcd39c1e4c25880791f596d182