Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d41901eff2c1622c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-08-13 02:14:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d31bfe7dd22edd7e449d607775dcd9ef SHA-1: c9eea183d2c8fe750058b489595bc87538b28597 SHA-256: d41901eff2c1622cce41518389f4c9418a3a9860bbb4dcc1fe8f9b4bc0b1f992
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, acting as a link farm. These links likely serve to obscure the true destination and distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with the PDF being identified as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cf1ec9b05---musugewazimiso.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://renault-service.com/userfiles/kuwotubeponovigodevos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112b751075d5---40053016674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioassociatoemc.com/userfiles/files/52351920359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autofactory-jin.com/js/upload/files/narojojejadatobabuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28324b8538---18158230447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abeda0f590b1029df76ca08e4b85f6ed/15554033911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/48793842291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hy-concrete.ru/d/files/9256257265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/tojojikidovilawireroxolex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbdirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pupupedepadebinixekoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/60075951875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/85743783805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/32468536810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bonbq02tff7u3u5tfrs8oomruq/fadesitunoxego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksklinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38506063508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doganagolosa.it/file/37901184746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071342724027---32345779261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunwisechem.com/Uploadfiles/files/15587951920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/666c9da55e11e9c5e23ff9f47b813742/fatutuzujuzavuwufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/33834001015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a60f9111a---bafisunagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+transfer+money+from+my+direct+express+cardPDF 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_off0000eddb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F2 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 35d4ce65b1367635c00713478c137ec957597ec3085c5b14f1317a33d98a99ea
font_02_sfnt_off00011fa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FA3 17352 bytes
SHA-256: e9738393def4e762098cdc29d7a64fcdd9be43d4829a432c1dcb514c31dea2d7