Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a41d712dbc167cfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-24 21:52:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c77040d31ce2954e699ed364070e4fd7 SHA-1: eafb7d924e091aabe8989fb6adad3fc48659fae6 SHA-256: a41d712dbc167cfa3e9991d1b25deeb8cd9b9415dddb1b962c4e4aaaf4a50924
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings are sufficient to infer a malicious redirection workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bb3864ae06391ebb8a440ab8c2cf8ec/81010383413.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa07369c5dee35ee8ae8fe572ffc2f09/xitawurunifafotijidiwisul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/83732845175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k8vu8g4j3qs8ti6o5t0jhbj7r6/65368982644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/17604342714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4aaa6bed9---girura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab051f4436324d4b0849f0a273c9287f/53118784136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/kazutase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/90800940453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/079e07a695d4d3516f6cd58966c368dd/47877650910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/gavizaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/11449090505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--l3cbpp3gh4a5g5c.com/userfiles/files/50549599569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xosobacninh.vn/webroot/img/files/64941535521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210616122757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5aitbra2946n5lgg8imtk2pt5/98214663116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e1e1a9085---36705978042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a64f378cda9a360ba2374abd03955ab7/2565340845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf9cb96d8b---kebezerixivebevatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-ned.com/uploads/files/kaniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/elezegasaxori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fe30e9476bcd93ce4f19710bbd6b462/vewozadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27449142cf---25236123252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfcae051e85ba31539d638c5a213af39/79004720339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=axl+movie+in+tamil+isaimini+downloadPDF 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_off0000f2f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0F 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 5ee2f538953966e0af42b75bb10bb04e379c416b4d05e9672bb05d1d27bc4619
font_02_sfnt_off00012322.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12322 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 7d773a8043736dd62b39b1dda9c31f2e24490f1657ba4fc4ac83d9b0b199891b