Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 641a1b00b3d04757…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:34:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 80918e4e3ad09bd824536878560b17a0 SHA-1: cb9e2d5d563dd442641accc3078c2dd4996b1f32 SHA-256: 641a1b00b3d0475753af8845fa474b089982516740146d52edc5f70ee252f2f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting it's used for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly supports its role as a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brihaspativar+vrat+katha+download+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://dotykbylinky.sk/_subory/subory/12008688817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf0b7c76b8---62772594520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockfallco.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc0b02812d---lasoraxemasopojufogog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/82101989750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95a3b9ecaf---57213986343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75295522271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112fce499cd8---53608744560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865336506b0---40494696990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8150bf6718815367e14056c0eb84400/remuluxakov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610cf720a919a---kapad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22pqgqrjg9lrqnvhl9q5bbmbgs/63359213856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoa5aj.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35983592277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4aa84ea0219c1843e187252210c87b7/86197049699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endemic-capital.ru/uploads/files/773919339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cctechlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/47902014470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a12ab64f28---15438836325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a71sp893g1ps1frkr9q6lcnh51/katesubebanovipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db2fafbba7d48d7fd19d8c89a0ef62ba/53812595712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/dejazuxulekapuvuzakaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/polon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-skawina.pl/app/webroot/media/files/magutusobexidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc36e5526f---mitajozefegilagozuwinagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87b84720aa000b01e2906c95f6d7465b/sazulujulegefuzeput.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_off0000e245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE245 10760 bytes
SHA-256: dcce926f2f946632577d14eaea1d9d9a816136312ce52d98e775fb6ecb1160ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001131a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1131A 21368 bytes
SHA-256: 29d6cbe1e95105176c683d7d62d449991d93702a3656d80d6f7a8a7d4fe6c1ec