Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 641dbac8c718c4ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-08-07 19:12:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5fbefe5c069fdb327eec6b6febba559c SHA-1: 950e57d5b41d3e48808d64f035218e94083df2d7 SHA-256: 641dbac8c718c4baec4b9ac657ba739db02b484257c3fd7c4b514f23ca9a9f8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+free+200+robux PDF link annotation
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/napuwanejesozowajasad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d05c94171dd---sapuxonobutaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flynewsletter.com/uploads/file/kirufusodubufune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/60580210622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/66485326349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/jawetasukarolige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f22533524---wibezolowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081661a59318---86799796868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/lunamefaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5baeb4eac8---rokasikiwiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c2c100775b---75391503222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.red/yamituki-n/uploads/files/30030511982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/59960025366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saaretravel.ee/images/file/guledefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megewabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa09c52635a---koxuruloromonavifoxobejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herfon-machinery.com/images/ckfinder/files/20210713041420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///91231501974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horticulturenepal.org/userfiles/file/nawonupolefixezazubebalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094063fcacf3---35367173975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4fbab073705564a6c97bf99478299f7/53562401946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prawobrzeze.info/userfiles/file/30470813723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac057ad99ff---nusavozidepawedako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proart.by/media/file/jemunasejefenane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obl33n4k8nc33l3kpfn9oe1s0d/lovebesepixuk.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_off0000c388.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC388 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 20aa931c5bf7e4c729b45279aea09712a0ae44852120fcf90223a0973e83b001
font_01_sfnt_off0000db91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB91 16228 bytes
SHA-256: 471252c6bc14f4aa84d3e04c83faa47c3195f92e5ba632f7d5a347bd97998317
font_02_sfnt_off00010585.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10585 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1