Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c41ffed71f1073eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 14:47:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a9114416ffa1ef7513f376c198989a9b SHA-1: b1342aa33f509ed9afae50d4443b9635c64db68f SHA-256: c41ffed71f1073eb5654f5b501bffc1a88f815ef9727c66647cb12876e256dee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://rjpexport.com/files/motamoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yigang-lin.com/uploads/files/202108231513509422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glavis.biz/userfiles/file/855794264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/befusofolopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillandbrownfamily.com/clients/76964/File/lozejudatasofurinogut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thcsducthang.pgdbactuliem.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lopirinififed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/tapetikivekemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/juwilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engineersclasses4competition.com/files/others/diwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf76cea93dac6597157cb9f24d0396f7/12251249422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lsrbh5l07am4dpp675q1l4rhmi/xalik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7be219d4f2---13086454533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bostonmentors.com/userfiles/file/96644083575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakianco.ir/data/image/uploads/news/files/16185743879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa1f792ec1a---wupuxakujokoroxifeketed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turystyka.powiatlubartowski.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokebubokisanewam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dac31abbbb---wozoxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jabibagexojokur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nt997o5vuaue6l6r8n06nspnkr/99747846535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82ddehqpiqdjnbvvviviqtki6c/64970885152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tebsc.com/clients/84181/File/11485057196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2086f146a5d8b657a2248d5208f47e5/raxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pajurioverslas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wovidilejigobaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=angular+6+pdf+viewerPDF 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_off0000bb0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD324 10688 bytes
SHA-256: a88ae9901e72decfe028d9d275581fee5d8eb1703975ef450a2a6b848475e874
font_02_sfnt_off0000eba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA2 16952 bytes
SHA-256: 87f630c36b600b9a670dbdc45d420412f545c131bd4dac2439dbf00297dfa33b