Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c41ce517ad323d13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-23 05:28:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4d96f970a04832f667476a690cabda77 SHA-1: 7d341bfd7347d968bc82a959c39ce40a500955c7 SHA-256: c41ce517ad323d136fc3521858dbfbc1eb1b9551370bc37e679064de9b3f01a4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an intent to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://abcoegypt.com/userfiles/files/51020515826.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fb47f303c50aa29f0e47794289d305e/87165139418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunmobile.vn/files/uploaded/20210921/file/86899060557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenhousehotel.vn/uploads/image/files/47287473004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francemonde.news/UserFiles/file/93043317506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b2b3a9bf90---pusuxiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hattshopping.com/admin/assets/images/ckfiles/63487837487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhins.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/81533481762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142cb9be4fe0---44180355347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscow-vernisage.com/files/files/ledidujarojawipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/totufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f3a011058---ponajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovecongtruong.com/upload/files/79354864961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b30g3uq7pay7m.com/upload/fckeditor/file/55273492668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrehistoriquesndbc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xevoxosoradituboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koyomisushi.com/uploads/files/fefidowisaniguwumedobito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsddesign.com/filespath/files/20210902210142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satnamunicipalcorporation.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16452869067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/67964032274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71505226923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giasidaily.com/uploads/userfiles/file/dubaxitete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krossi.ru/images/content/files/67135902776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b9e7cbfc66---kojonowakewuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laulumaja.fi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tekofupidedejifutumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/xonavudemuwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--z4qq44i.xn--kpry57d/upload/actfiles/divupezajulerazeted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=cannot+open+play+storePDF 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_off0000dba7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA7 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 7c32f3107aa11de68cf6c946669b703d8164ea1fc65ae56e77f6aa91ef1956f6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f30e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30E 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 7d2fe3ef0cceded3a36625ae8ad37bac59b66b141958ee5d73b797e3b0185b62
font_02_sfnt_off0001210e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1210E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1