Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d41223e0e0b8dfa4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 20:22:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7f9d679efafe168d78cc5f33613419ac SHA-1: a7542b3fc2ac61448f144b1dcabcab5b30076d5a SHA-256: d41223e0e0b8dfa4e303a9d183e97b1de0d16c553cfe33a842329679b79cb4c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the PDF structure suggest it's part of a larger phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rent+by+subletting+meaning PDF link annotation
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb1a60fc72---82639178880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce0b3a8083b---dubalukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/mogoveloxonetolavafekur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ddcc7d964---julixolab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/33703885030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.comfile/lebujixozowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5f5bd124fa---tenojibeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauti-full.ru/uploads/files/futox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/93731377883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3smkp9rgvd425r5bcvlnba1jf/defososajusebeselofebawos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.com/files/files/domunofekazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f506180063---24358993635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5156c4546ca3e7739e16c46efd0f45a9/69960452623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d6321332e---kagiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodymindspiritconnection.org/clients/5/53/53f1eac0d8ee32431a47b4e1af774f29/File/metal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fie4itk44vjiubjv5qdr28r1mk/povasijekogetedulazera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gamalitumifoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9c69762e3---87789476096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/muwolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/94794294604.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_off0000e3a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBBB 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 6b490c6aaddc9b140d6834f1e411f84f0ace6d3d4fb8d94ee0af26afbcad9290
font_02_sfnt_off00011411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11411 16592 bytes
SHA-256: 93ebf918c5d711710d9e90039a6075d5def036beb976e2ac04657b8eecf27645

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