Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de414808ffc8b06d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 04:24:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0088d36434e06ea19ded0604a47b78bb SHA-1: ad73f9942f70f00f6deaf90229305c281a9de4c1 SHA-256: de414808ffc8b06d51c27abccfd0c91c4c716f88207f7565869ec5636f7c1fc6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The heuristic 'SE_QR_LURE' also suggests a potential QR code redirection, further supporting a social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://inspiredindianfoundation.org/uploads/90259556265.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oiseau-bleu-morzine.com/userfiles/file/53556747321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimmerei-possert.at/tavisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csaladiegyteruautok.hu/userfiles/files/vemukugorisobutadafiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/20819961216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laser-piskovani.cz/democms/userfiles/file/10769094496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tideandtigers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75120745291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143a533979e5---64758375330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/bokekag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firesecurity.sk/userfiles/file/gitadekurojitelaxipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aodaixuan.vn/app/webroot/upload/image/files/midawejor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patriarca-batiment.com/ressource/site-image/files/91581400621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370bafb72a5---92843316243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/wenawexedige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/44437554514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/626ce36c435911b9fa7638855a6b8e7d/87963045862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--38-mlcqjbufcz6h.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/tirafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever.dacola.com/upload/files/joredugerozuwidudub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongsung114.com/files/fckeditor/file/dabupazogadazojoladinef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/97424679719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monthclean.com/uploads/files/202109040444087455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/pebefezusulafovozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgrappresentanze.eu/userfiles/files/4055554474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzwgjx.com/d/files/guvasabuvuwitedarade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wacommerce.net/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rifas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=android+system+apkPDF 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_off0000f787.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF787 17944 bytes
SHA-256: 4598e2af04befbc6194e61e8303b5a21c6b027d7e479e987fa2634d1ac54ccae
font_01_sfnt_off000125b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B5 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 2d98f64604a8f8007aae95d2c4cae12efecdb48de6c78b32a53623bf6aaee2b0
font_02_sfnt_off00013e4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1