Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c241af8bb2bee979…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:33:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c555c7c16278c72fd4e4a9b78ad1e221 SHA-1: 2826fe645cf00a215402122c8849ea1a7a80a416 SHA-256: c241af8bb2bee979af799326f86b8a2fdfced62d8b1509040e1e5706a48a4bb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external, potentially malicious, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/lizomarezafatevozowun.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/13146889362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/81291532019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc64c6405f---84394174609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/20284058582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradhelferlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pewelufanalisonolerifari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/wodijixigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a13e194997f---70736711962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eg2vjccsgk825tkudrlk2ua0q/sagokafujiworumugupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/95635394004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durgabas.coop.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xemojafamepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f0158e846b---vapapixipavosibugavenemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/35951230646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/37195034783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dovolena-jiznicechy.cz/uploads/53644096679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garyjetcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b6b9371507d9cd29b3e6c333332c2a1/luligirapuboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillandbrownfamily.com/clients/76964/File/mamifagopatoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5898a65a9a---57331001127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-22/20210622204405676053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/ludumibolefasilafite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.donboscovizag.org/images/files/javewapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/25595696352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/71998876764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b60f2dd958---3318233847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=videocon+bazoomba+tv+service+manualPDF 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_off0000e70c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70C 10864 bytes
SHA-256: ceafc3e16fc63ec62005376b8b0fc480ea1f66bc0a00e4e89bb2c39eaa9d2d43
font_01_sfnt_off0001002d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1002D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001183f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1183F 20876 bytes
SHA-256: 5bdff38d9aab9e70ed2710ce5a526a136a6078fbb1c79a71b8e1576b818a7729