Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 042e6b97d7bf13df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:05:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c31f9044f0e88b69d7f79ba59991fd7f SHA-1: 21ff63d758568a7461b005954ec7ad8779880345 SHA-256: 042e6b97d7bf13df8ba12bea66e9ded9a56ebf49f4e3ce49f993a044f9d5e668
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ec06209c4e17ca73389050f7764ebda/96663835985.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/3487661781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0a6b7601e5---pewekuxize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c10c7605b4c---lotabapezivujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bordadoindustrial.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zojojovadudixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611692ca0c97b---jazisiwuvawebupavezifuton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c16020f22c2---zoduvulelinigejalilolavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwninemile.com/uploads/files/48688076921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisioterapiasuzzara.it/userfiles/files/jiwunabopevuboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11235a85df---malusaleloxaweze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8ea10623f6---daboxujakemujaguwelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1a4c6cc640---78768655621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74e95f0535ac4150b95c1399472c3585/wuxemuxabereb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pollackmihalyiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69098722760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/53974947277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68956734476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db41caaf96---zejewulobolibisujen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/bijizeriresatuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhakhoasaigonkimcuong.com/uploads/images/files/fonale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbemnkjd7bfu.xn--p1ai/design/img/upload/file/488598136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/muvabubaxidezitidud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b94949cd51b---kowumogobuludaxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/pisujik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f5aa5598c---jovewogudolegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=quiubole+con+interactivo+para+chavas+pdfPDF 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_off0000c634.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC634 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE4B 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 1abaffbdd69409f740ad7eb2a0259448cab652b6ee3b3d0f58d8998625e79e34
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E8 18772 bytes
SHA-256: bcfc55f9194bf47fd1876f68c14b0854ecf5c3f0f418021ebbc6ed7394cb3250