Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df41f304ddeb96c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 12:25:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8954c14454061a8d6f04b2bc35245dc4 SHA-1: 340872096a1da95acf02c31ce8285881d16bcfd9 SHA-256: df41f304ddeb96c5b07d31b56b824fa15ceb52544ccbe23e6ae1d9782683c9cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of multiple links on compromised CMS upload storage suggests an attempt to leverage existing vulnerabilities for hosting malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614024eadcab8---wadigojudug.pdf
    • http://hoangle.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/70227308540.pdf
    • http://xn--80affcyoc0ac1f6a.xn--p1ai/admin/modules/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2152917027.pdf
    • http://come2menorca.com/images/file/watoderukemegojabeno.pdf
    • http://vandientuchinhhang.com/upload/files/rasozajero.pdf
    • http://hvpeds.com/upload/contents/file/84023173180.pdf
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c2d110347---22015092898.pdf
    • https://vientangluc.com/upload/files/25257302343.pdf
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e61e06e2c4---sewulixazimobu.pdf
    • http://runo34.ru/attachments/file/66159546760.pdf
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac387e7dca---zinoji.pdf
    • http://bcslaw.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/72899378345.pdf
    • http://sarljarry.com/userfiles/file/40521486079.pdf
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/2263335081.pdf
    • http://homesunshinepharma.com/upload/files/78685870285.pdf
    • https://terminarz.online/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/visiniwi.pdf
    • http://enslev-anlaegsservice.dk/userfiles/file/tezivev.pdf
    • http://congseng.com/uploadfile/files/xobodojamedinoli.pdf
    • http://dralituncer.com/userfiles/file/1204274255.pdf
    • https://sanagustin.cl/files/79374120512.pdf
    • http://wangnatheater.bpi.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9914754685.pdf
    • http://preprod.app-nomads.com/ugecam/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lasutoxe.pdf
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ffacfd8b53---50042684932.pdf
    • http://cukorbetegshop.hu/files/xirojiburazamara.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=best+offline+anime+games+for+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eeb9.bin
faf0325d078898ea4f0f891ee471ce6cba9a54af18d112d06de01c74d5b75746
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB9 10752 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010735.bin
f2f174498bfa570ca19fd6bbbde1c3dd73607021c84a5209c498064d2b4f12a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10735 16484 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013202.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13202 16792 bytes