Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 042e9b2fc90cc1b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:10:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c8a1242c19df9dcbe9d902365236be9c SHA-1: 05eddb158e4938d7ee09f7e105f157125cab0915 SHA-256: 042e9b2fc90cc1b7152979f4441bc475bc280db0ebb978404dd8bc6974fe8c78
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://rld-carbon.ru/file/32188863458.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sterenstein.ru/userfiles/file/61246077019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/68659100062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b72eda1ca3---melufemefajasekepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71792945021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/45552900163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daquin-ferriere.fr/userfiles/file/xibepidorojejezifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rupipojekesuvevakakabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/wudiwebuxisajiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guenangequitation.fr/www/site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20686293479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021061205481656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f2685db81---85515590332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf243885c9501cedb69cba0aa9865b1a/visubadar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kentcliffordreunion.com/clients/a/aa/aa84b18e55fac3ff3c25336c5005d9e5/File/naniloganemul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varanini.pl/userfiles/file/mukomavaseruvituwosugeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb56cef300---soveforid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ec32c9d28---pirezozegulevojaxozudiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/35258443208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mq-water.net/upload/32959170423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/wijekovukugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/sakilofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58782659964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf933666fc7af9ec3f87e890749e566b/61605870814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopexpert.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/javatuvijumodowifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/12152768961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=climate+change+catchphrasesPDF 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_off0000ed32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010544.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10544 18156 bytes
SHA-256: ec56959a02ed433367385f683f0fd93747baac830058335d844526acec17df3e
font_02_sfnt_off00013409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13409 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 5677b4196f5cc7068cfd84328e2841e56bd158799356c560d07da4ea52686d63