Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 042eb62a670dbf70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-08-17 20:58:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8edf5127a14dc5eb3aaa2640ea86ea91 SHA-1: 20c8492a0ba4bfaa250e1ce6dcd52d1479afe3fe SHA-256: 042eb62a670dbf7055bc73cdaf1180c977cd8f612a05298098baf4063443278f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, distributing numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely to lure users to phishing or malware download sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+prepare+for+us+citizenship+interview PDF link annotation
    • https://nezrenpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/92878082251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/20835154078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12f5c89dae4a3df31923959db88c6063/penilukosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesht.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8138725815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210429042112191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/27625723490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vencedor.coop/images/admin/file/duvivagorilovaxegadopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/pajudesukivofisaroguwuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdab7b5607---dorofixexodunuritutasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviatroglo.fr/IMG/file/703115257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609beddf3dbc3---bezumetobiwavewanofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bb8b4b0ced---37784563416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210811094313_d1rke8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lobalokexikakubeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13daa5b48cdffff17b7d0509e4e46d4b/bewajav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/41419483407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b55b9a008f---89274003442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c751759e7d6---guxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sankohomestay.com/userfiles/files/zoteguvubebunoliwojil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160befbb066028---kepujabufojupole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43njnpjqrrmngkmbo98c3ssv6n/94106532121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef6493ed57---11788701134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dastone.ru/userfiles/file/nekopozaxegutulirigibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohadalegistrocbarter.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/48771590935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bryanhigh78.com/clients/72554/File/bewibito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/99619836310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodrago.eu/userfiles/files/xipisonuzuzeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f826.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF826 16284 bytes
SHA-256: cf456ff9c65a2b2f13e66f50527f1634e18f677240dc0069005605a09632da10
font_01_sfnt_off00012204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12204 10832 bytes
SHA-256: bc1749049363b1c617798deb42df2b1bf2cf6c303f9d24226070dfc76f39d8ca
font_02_sfnt_off00013b0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1