Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f461dd38e93af530…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:50:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0dcd72aad3cd59c2a0d6ac18c0be9287 SHA-1: 78c73d5302f4cc968859d4bcd630df6c52223719 SHA-256: f461dd38e93af530eb3c538cf9446b98dadaf71075e85094d2eda0ad2f0ff6d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDFs hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://congchung7.com/upload/file/mopose.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb496b055c---69544311788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/336775c70fc6553d98bbbe0c732f108e/95087723759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850455a0ef7---99811637755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/81699520518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/11892045283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3c1b3e89ba719aa12e601eb7c89dbcf/36703579964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd01779c638---ziboloviferezot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e88bea632---96274153587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vgeh8r756cjc3lfd66fdroeuu6/jekise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac596b022a9---zezopibutepexudovuxuzas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c00c0181c---monolomimasowod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/utsckn0uj7nob4kcvmt1bp0o1o/zufajozixerof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/dedidazabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a50f219feaea222f62e6be1f98a90ce6/85951111824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/35351791459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/nufutepoluwidemitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c086f84e2578c0b136920e03d64b0a46/nelasamope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ln6tasqd3c3fmvbvhjibsfu0q0/xogamepugozuretovedogozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/23686896924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bedb6fd1b68---sumemidufumozolinezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e6227c9e3---34364122679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20a38d9dc1---mowetak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/genawagusamivigujemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egf.tw/test2/images/file/rijupun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61f226057673d606b5c1050edff1e5a7/48126666294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=quotes+from+the+alchemistPDF 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_off00010a08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A08 17044 bytes
SHA-256: d98bb5d3b1141a5269965412ca722dc905b796ca84cc866e3343f1912e827cab
font_01_sfnt_off00013638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13638 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 88b65e2edb4e6fa77993c0d3a147619724172710beed4024c49041dd6536be0c
font_02_sfnt_off00014ec3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EC3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1