Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a41a4e44e108a996…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 16:43:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3890e69868f7dc03e0006e8c3ae49695 SHA-1: c448ad2c0303f0e6fc595a2c0f5db56cdc91373d SHA-256: a41a4e44e108a996819b19437a41f0de55380b5a29b0807d11d59c12344557ed
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of urgency language and brand impersonation (Apple) further supports a credential phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=rk3328+android+tv+firmware.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45633989059.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vcelari.naceradec.cz/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70579920884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wm-meyer.de/meyer/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lumujesidojuguvebuvejet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/41897746014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sipzip.com/userfiles/file/15695721689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4yoga.by/pics/files/gosulakawopajuxuguwilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cd7b343700---ramikozulef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/tiwawakize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsdinstruments.nl/uploads/files/gejuvanako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/23725307655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/60970736007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/17946191737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbstroy53.ru/img/files/zoxenamigeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radiosmile.hu/upload/file/78024518960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4210d43f84f383ed8098119db3efb5dc/13010721436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superfasttv.com/uploads/files/pixabos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olddieselparts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruverokepomuvono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jin16888.com/userfiles/file/derurosepesibutekofuzagus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/mebowowidevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gainliving.com/upload/editor/file/rujemetusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goxazegirazaruzorefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/zuwezobubij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/917ukk7vd1cvqu4b97is0bsio7/24461792444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/14318817448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimstudioinc.com/media/files/77259129191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=rk3328+android+tv+firmwarePDF 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_off0000cb11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE328 11088 bytes
SHA-256: dd87b6e783fbe8295fe65bbcfd13bf987703e78d84116068f8db872ed017bec5
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD22 18332 bytes
SHA-256: a2fd356b559f3c2c28e491972d824305e649f592e3172d5e4727c87ad9d484dc