Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed41cd772a5b9207…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:33:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d9c51ac9da87301469e77735434a8dc4 SHA-1: 6340592b0965da47ae05bf946560252794280101 SHA-256: ed41cd772a5b9207337faa762dce28d44ba48e24f01110e4ee08fdf3bfd275a9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, strongly suggests a link farm designed to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9886

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=inova%C3%A7%C3%A3o+e+esp%C3%ADrito+empreendedor+peter+drucker+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/22950086362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vek-bg.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tizijikavebajimukolesivaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisioterapiasuzzara.it/userfiles/files/ratatetilegigidujupuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/69167973700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2087e15d5---85450421070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129a41e628f1---23700024102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56874332421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/41351947841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611987df00016---tebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serenetour.com/image/upload/File/setatoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danchrisjewelry.com/userfiles/file/tajafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/58964133497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88764980673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/zekoloviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/tufewusukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/47388622029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb8aa3bf19---fizujirevemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/gawumik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611edae27f4a1---87719715446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ab500053b---40031039149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/68925529634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/xoxetosupomibudopupofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewimewafifaverisutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f327c575830---78062598018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promador.pl/userfiles/file/18569722126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/17228581076.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_off000112a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012ab5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AB5 22128 bytes
SHA-256: 7350b3d95039298f063cc8f52cb050bcd69377694eca1f5f386fb5acc3a398d9
font_02_sfnt_off00016225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16225 11604 bytes
SHA-256: 2a31f382d42b2fdc3d5616e6fa30c71e7e0bd593491b5e31afaa6c4d51ac783e