Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b41c8d9e3129f1cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-08-04 08:18:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 5e962dfd48db715c890174f06bca6cac SHA-1: d40cdce528282da0a7ce95066cf27661d6094e6a SHA-256: b41c8d9e3129f1cfa170e8c5dffdf03b7e260b4e77c3ad1eab3c694761356965
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/paposavogiwevatinor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/59201644232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160933d483a7af---56273025979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef3811bad6bccbf1ba4ed7faa6cb4f2c/6870520166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dt0769s61t6ui1oaug6dmc53f4/74196612553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021080407091873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-sinpro.com/upload/files/saxididuvusamuzasofisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/38158752059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/48204216603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltopperalumni.com/clients/9/93/936f23dc4abb03f6d4a1aae2c8a32781/File/bijimugijizedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8881c1ad1d---sozikako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/82640194762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102f80c5666a---lunovuxajewopinugovuniwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newdimension.su/userfiles/file/91308075503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66617763922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983a262e662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5473184c2e63d3162242d21b2fcef3e/59243201170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yacpa.org/yacpafiles/file/sokesosuliletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42d8423e28---zopepovazazexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/8253288614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents//files/firevivuvipaxanemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorrstrechy.cz/UserFiles/File/kusidakejafopike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1ae341b70---7801577939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=black+and+decker+grass+hog+trimmer+replacement+partsPDF 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_off0000f88e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF88E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A0 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 3843de3da2fc2ce17f927b02885110d21737ea54eb08a3b163bb356c322d9e94
font_02_sfnt_off00013dca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DCA 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 231d9524dddfb72cbb2d571c9714b4dfa31e19d1c8679c378a8ac2bd1dc48753