Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de41b7e62365e4c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:53:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b4caa5aa4723ab5975e635b60caf5704 SHA-1: 582c28dfd70df1dcfeda13ab4df3f87ca1edc791 SHA-256: de41b7e62365e4c3fee1c8d7436d7743d3b1494867ba77aada04caea3f585f96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, indicating an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=scary+stories+for+middle+school+students+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://sukienmiennam.com/userupload/files/33899748537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intergeored.com/upload/File/62800644978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f7e6df0a7---sujilovujidoxosolokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verticala.ro/images/userfiles/jepijom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosg.net/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210807204804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnationwide.com/userfiles/files/21508944231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mueblesgamez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6431008503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemayrockinstitute.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/87976080510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/podatumakawukumezokifonib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisnoblelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/31352038397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/bufosulusaratoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safaraval.com/basefile/safaravalcom/files/sugobozowisusuzub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bec8414e06cb213bd78b6203b1c4881/63343711701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tugekesevoximu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/81073756334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/157699734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/18283458821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moderator.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/depepaduluxugubijakofenal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/kedipiwazudusolejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalgroupautos.com/files/others/99965769697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608add86bd6ea---25827035086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaabrahaoosta.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bodusomadomikesuxubed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/vuxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/rerubugufinatedavuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/files/53742536284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btfa.tw/upload/files/32440650307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210727_6F19978B0ED62609.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_off0000dda3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDA3 11176 bytes
SHA-256: cf63ad4392d61d93cbabbaa84c52bcacf799649578fb33c411edd7ac9a5400d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF792 17752 bytes
SHA-256: bbfd0a431fa185dd2d2bfbc519daa3f2828606ec8c86beee70128654c336c10d
font_02_sfnt_off000125c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1