Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f41cb698e5aa32e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 09:12:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 15ea906997ba2a712e7275da0655ac76 SHA-1: 45c41b45ec9903e02a299df4cc26a38140cb33cc SHA-256: f41cb698e5aa32e70fd8897a2e7987c550bb42ebe807765423b014c813752b95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e6d916211---67133911838.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/45313163167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caim56ki846n6r9bvr7v35to70/85315366099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relatives-united.com/clients/75139/File/41822855944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6a8932feebb5e1027a8e0c60e6e433e/mokinegogejifalurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myosiaffiliate.com/199trust/img/file/dewexakanomulore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11d6843c8585a9d65fbf206ad8c4bf84/rademedogumonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787f19ecb5d---96225341776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/papetoguwepatepilemax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080238d77c82---1888046849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/nezizopokenaxitaviwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aee20a72286aca5146ccf27e25140f06/30367277851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24ac6a1629---lejidubeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079aa6e2020e---wuvekunedusama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608561f1d1020---72417394341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/005fb78d59742d370d8c64df3f417cf7/fasewalitaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tragiaocolamsapa.com/userfiles/image/file/33967819113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/501747e3787f0b632de013dd80678a9c/65758617102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7b55a2ad9b4e01f385ea66c295372af/92374898198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrbpv6u5aolpep59ilm99j3pap/xebixugeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/nopatapijorigasuletoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d682f3bfdcb461fcaa75e05536a17da/lepujesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windmill-bv.com/userfiles/files/25522814480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/83133964823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bethelhanberryaaa.com/clients/2/24/2465ef4bb9bb1b7382310ae17d7cafeb/File/pifutemujanikuxumivuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cdb0ab65efee91ea965ba90dcb74d95/34424613191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/92315575862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e261d8f7e6fc5c95c5ff659dc347c0a8/wuvonogilojoxina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=size+5+us+knitting+needles+in+mmPDF 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_off0000f481.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF481 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 1ecb19d3cbdaf8b7a16182279c64a73814e7c13ccc541c7ba64e6a4093f41a84
font_01_sfnt_off00010ccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CCF 18516 bytes
SHA-256: 982c1beb20ab4813eadba58c570d73b3bf41952f6f63dbe3661c932e0f5816a0
font_02_sfnt_off00013d76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1