Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d41a3e0d94bd26ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-14 02:47:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e2abb8b32dc64c55a90c96e6df4ed208 SHA-1: 15b9e7a39304cc083f07c1513c34bd9080d07bce SHA-256: d41a3e0d94bd26efb560739b51dbbc937a9b138b36d45b76f80ebc6aa8594cf2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to exploit user trust through deceptive links.

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=phone+rescue+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/nedikesamaxekovarijugagid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/dukovewalisusana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/pegitodonepaperenevetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eklyps.net/images/file/64200074996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulators.com/d/files/zoxemuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katour.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jifutitek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.giuseppe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiwomukuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/fudupazegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actybrain-consult.com/Upload/files/2909685447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/8460075852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agierresrl.it/userfiles/files/78556680916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nagijusirewokavodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delcinfo.ru/img/files/files/rowunabidubinularo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudraconsultancy.com/uploads/files/gewovenedivitilasopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/dawaxitanenadepixaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e9c4719c02---ditogubitiwapodipomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f5ef2a1a6cb7da963d942b2cf8854b1/jakepesobavogakarot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gnkcev68nsme4t38hmrkck7q80/suvimefofamibomabalukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalinmobiliario24.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/tozexipamulofenab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/93676220382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spharma.ua/files/file/nilotepuforadikuvamozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/dixivagunafub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanhacollection.com/images/files/balafazebeledudoge.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_off0000e5a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDBE 10528 bytes
SHA-256: a39d090a096a46daa569d3321503e5e8d38cde8a9e250d1a484dc05443aab897
font_02_sfnt_off0001159c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1159C 17620 bytes
SHA-256: d430d452d54dd76ad70c4fc7dd10ada335cfc5bb562a60a3bbeb391e3a696890