Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca41a93d94a1bc63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:22:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d98876ca14e1541d3b7761456c913dc8 SHA-1: f732003353519402937d8bcc01255b795af6c88a SHA-256: ca41a93d94a1bc634fb931788d40de3517cb52cac0281ae9d9fef6d1d0e2ff54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=owners+manual+honda+accord+2008 PDF link annotation
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/8400451856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/pobavevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compufoxmail.com/userfiles/file/tufaxizagurikaxojogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/963273e6e0439a42baa39ec66e84503a/lopapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walosports.cl/userfiles/file/5737614807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hig-hegmann.de/userfiles/file/22319582838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyuangang.com/UserFiles/file///tipir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismofattorialucciano.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19141075270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/94242455340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/difaturukixugesuzatejufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariacene.com/userfiles/files/2684034738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/90543733182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0e65e3d91---vixutofimibikesipagive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69801315149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5g7lruutt1om13pujsne31gisf/42253699636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5gkng6r90sjfe52o2i7305la1/16289003149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esterkins.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64485464683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/93950547731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/87491731412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bvphcn.bdata.vn/upload/files/4263395092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/62941547904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/214ee91a093eba0a1df51e71e4b50d33/ramelegevinisivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ovgaeb4i9lgl9nksd9unpshlqe/10602987368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dd8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD8D 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 917913da5bf3aecfe0fa5437831fe68de3e1e2166e142e3a36c59f0c82004ee2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f75f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF75F 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 8e32ba4c36be4dfb72d22e768976a5ea6607ac53399d22e861aae3e62e564bfb
font_02_sfnt_off0001230b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1230B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1