Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f41aef664e83883f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.0 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:07:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 60ce94b9a9ba169137acfd2e17ae39fa SHA-1: b82607e9f68d0db8fd2168bf1dd5d6e5e241dfe8 SHA-256: f41aef664e83883f4286e9228b1f095cb1a818ec10c3e4c7fa5383df82c41ede
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, with several hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9819

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://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/90443537740.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bipaf.org/2009_home/upload/editor/file/fibubevogusaparixutabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/jomalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/8381323458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6af786d79a---23040481375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8af496300f---63255228690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/15222364571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc2a634fc8---16977689180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085bbfdd06d8---49061174292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oi8l70f8i5l5k7rshajm8uq9fv/wexupedewudelodelunuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec271d0da3---5688471953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fea371cf8---tiduzefalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a040e949183---bokularosuzikaman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/wakotepelerorutojim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090092c47309---tilovijufulagisakojalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/figite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b283efee372---9312391119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aeitb4h0psre431mqjitkqgkp6/benoronodor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e864cdb37a22e5cffe16d00ea192f0e6/41517448615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e462843284---sepajepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8528fc2245---busuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5215b231343m7ran91lk1dthp8/76944775627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/gopuligumomibimud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210531_A0AC5EF5E5F4A17A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/duvamimujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731a983ac65---zitegilupuwumakag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=mustang+fastback+gt+390PDF 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_off00015418.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15418 10808 bytes
SHA-256: d0ccaf7d735f504dc9532d2f4117484bbdb2f1da3c85f46f1655dd4cd3713430
font_01_sfnt_off00016d3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16D3E 17476 bytes
SHA-256: 97d35ae5b67bcf59acfca794d71d92b54b6f7d1e244b696714e49f92a8d3f948
font_02_sfnt_off00019a71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19A71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1