Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 641dff067538aedb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 02:12:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4265def0f1d06955871f30bd67f99c67 SHA-1: 7894200a68913411d56bae2a973167fd5793c0ad SHA-256: 641dff067538aedb1763130d9aff886a666a13f3d5afa89552f33742fe8abaf2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other unknown hosts, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.dilipprabhavalkar.com/images/file/16776922558.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sadex.pl/fck/file/60727925223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theptaynam.vn/upload/files/70826671793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358639df3e4---sonekinuritadisabuzuderi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_0A90ACB3A5F5A2E6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8bdc6511f---suvesositararurufafujuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142557b5c2c2---70275609837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southpointinstitutehowrah.com/admin/uploads/file/51767489476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gustosandvic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimijurib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15f02a2592e3cdcfadba601c54fad582/naxixunumeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326fe665da0---vagewedifabuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/3986231376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szamosiszerviz.hu/feltoltott/files/foxewukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0c2920cf8---nuvugozimolanikumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-pointpro.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lafis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed292bc986---medefapejemorewuliri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av72-reklama.ru/userfiles/file/1630627008c7e1a8315717a9cdd8fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunwisechem.com/Uploadfiles/files/samuvogadorojekikuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/zajokimorotis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d8ad68071e43e9e278ef82b07552804/49726118665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139988a2af69---60348729020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budropol.de/Upload/file/93858549970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanart21.com/files/userfiles/file/43245522302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=bass+g+major+scalePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e1da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1DA 10460 bytes
SHA-256: c6ebb2d7955b99496d37e5dc74d7b319b63a6738efd56157cb7db921152df173
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9AE 18532 bytes
SHA-256: e567f2858c2d07f22ff3aaebf0531c878276bb70b8cad5140f913edae34b7d4b
font_02_sfnt_off00012a11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1