Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e41f20b48f3522c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-05-27 02:07:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 58edae88b76034de2af018de73633ff6 SHA-1: aa110dd83a49b91cc8b22f38ce16cc8014f58bd8 SHA-256: e41f20b48f3522c81a5b1fe7b8174f16313f0a506d1e61df04cb7dcfa80ff3c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the PDF is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/robulew.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/ponijevemibopowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/938d54fdab2cba310b7656d2fd32fe10/ragaramisezopakajanexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607244485a26a---sorogirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6763r5v1r8i90vv31h31h9b7s0/javagupilelukufagamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ajngrv2vfso8d91j4e5ggqchk/90820313856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4b6154dd3---rikewepujazimam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/4951256210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b542001bbc---wuxupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j24ibdmvagopnha45sq2tjidul/92512337413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/gubag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fddktgd835u7vnevisgo059r7n/sufawijusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/firelumekaxupizesiriru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84f799e2f44e05b74644de2911d87d50/19727613124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/lumarudujoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+the+4+of+wands+reversed+meanPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA66 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 5041def12e8e2e68dcf270219d9ad6db1e7ebf7688257de91de45266c9b4ba74
font_01_sfnt_off0000eca3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA3 10348 bytes
SHA-256: a9c4826e4171f96695cb96cf004bd8afa86cc9a1dc1e43fe6bc04712210c892e