Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a41196d138901699…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-07-25 15:15:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 226880c43cf3b8039edb05269049dbe2 SHA-1: 19593f1e15b38ec14dc5555d28e27f056874ca3a SHA-256: a41196d138901699cec969211ce93b62c42232ef1a03d384e4961aa8bd889b4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious content, likely for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3oc7fmdm685dc8e4fsmka0boh/rikavemox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c127ed976b7---fazofatewova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844a8bad477---rafonabapizuvekudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biorenta.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noteru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5543555c13---57783183298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.ru/userfiles/file/39805192723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25df954a8f---sonirotakarubikudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c56b5dcfd---63601225831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37c69fdd5b1af117b275c997374adc0e/65138281636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/loseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070262497efb---dotagaginafavikiguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc591562cd---sibebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/timarimewadabigiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9412c62aa---tegipatot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langmypham.com/luutru/files/gekepizino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c68ec8f3323872c449a19a014229f60/zojadetiburuzaxupoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okud-istra.hr/userfiles/file/musoforavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e9664d33f7be58b7144fb0012ae5416/27629185402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc1f358f4b---topitare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/58281223597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d3cd24779---goviwirukemamumufoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c463b0d279c---56891073452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69460073348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c00342bb3---75055806258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+authorization+letter+to+claim+my+13th+month+payPDF 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_off00010328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10328 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3F 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 7c10b5028c98b243a0ad91da4fb9de281fb5df69f78bbc06ad0be0fc84575600
font_02_sfnt_off0001352f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1352F 17772 bytes
SHA-256: aaa0a3fe4005eec00681bdd0947a417b0b8083e285c7d259e5efb61942c32f2f