Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 941a67ee9458a15c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 12:09:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 67126841dbe720fc2f4f1e48f0cc4211 SHA-1: 1c81d9a54f69f8bbba68cc1cdd9b16dc1f3b8a83 SHA-256: 941a67ee9458a15c03de72ead6760f627cd5b80a3f3b959968e5adf519397b94
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fortnite+v+buck+codes+for+free PDF link annotation
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/sunajubiteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jd6618.com/jd6618/file/2021-9/file/LwpCms2021_09_15_14_45_49_5662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdaniec.com/upload/files/78293294143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/mirarafovoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turbotechnik24.de/userfiles/file/tetapuragan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonbinhduong.com/upload/files/83394552019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07555317a142b0913c324d5991a29bc7/89529177824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/getosetokirisepokebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakenflowersonline.com/userfiles/file/somuzerixaroxagazikedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wideanglepackaging.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kotibololunewopat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/janakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfwofficial.com/ck_imgs/files/lelerovulazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harmony.im/userfiles/file/46486283359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hawkseyetravels.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuwosokozuwoboser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaziogluenerji.com/images_upload/files/zojatipelobefovova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136011649a13---nazogikuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stigstudiotecnico.it/userfiles/files/jegipexelorofupebusupipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarangroup2.com/contents/files/molasib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesei.com/In PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613960431a4b0---33041560058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f016628a61d9a244646224703ec930f1/gefimezupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://llux.vn/uploads/files/57198874175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/kuvemisodumuriduwega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawaiisushi.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/55356202469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/sinebugabuwavinawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emanuelmlevin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wiwunozasesutorufuvuwu.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_off0001035c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1035C 20668 bytes
SHA-256: 5411855f429eba27636477828a179636cda50382335f315d78436605f7027740
font_01_sfnt_off00013ae6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000152fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152FD 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 34c166a1ff5a2e63ce4e321cabcd097fd5699ec66e98b1831c3c66609082b2e4