Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0942ef592508cc48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-26 17:01:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9cd2535a98edd3d5875b6a3e0cc40a50 SHA-1: 2e1d55f2d66d49c62e0a97b4337e855df7d53137 SHA-256: 0942ef592508cc48f956ba3b637fbfaa9a8aabef57e45b8d8eff28019ab8014c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=acls+guidelines+2018+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://lyzjkgm.com/d/files/42857897990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/23451319193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchung7.com/upload/file/97501918564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagelight.pl/userfiles/files/19653498789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/solelupukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portalbime.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/bovamirigur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/pebeburanigekenunogeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161455de30b2b7---75910693223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/zelulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aayams.com/userfiles/file/91346861333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/679778239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpconsulting.us/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93290541159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/basekesow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.be/assets/file/pewezuden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/33523252070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giaynangchieucao.com/userfiles/file/ketitibugedoxufudimululi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovelyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97201305842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vbond.hk/editor_upload/file/pamubuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c12820dc67---zeweromudopavobasisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1631905394_1623e40718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sausalito.com/wysiwygfiles/file/95935041781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144e3ea722ce---80780814965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexsafetyproducts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jawiralovigivox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-m.com/userfiles/file/pokonisikelutukerumesa.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_off0000b4b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4B8 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 1ac758581b2dd192504b1e62a16e3d5df1b1686df7247a74590712ed85f6d56a
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDF0 17316 bytes
SHA-256: 0db9d2134b7c812ee8ee5aa69f35326c09ebd81202bb659987ad134591eb3cb6
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA82 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1