Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f42ccec0621b38d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:59:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7a01e5e115cd0f5e08ed81acfc7e20ca SHA-1: db87d269e7137a08ce867eeb6cf2da86423ad632 SHA-256: 0f42ccec0621b38d9375915c89de49868f52811a63d5951b1a57cffef053c022
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of multiple suspicious URLs and the PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristic suggest a malicious document intended to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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 http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/juwodibenekirabul.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yulintimber.cn/d/files/21142937157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11ga4t9jf6c3pkblf066ar3bv6/dudotumenupakaviwugunagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b44db1870cb---25479061814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88ff0d3a9b129d3c1a8d121698aa57e0/43589975628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608488e3caf09---pepipalepabakeguvawovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paletydozahrady.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bibawevugoboboxovagad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/634f472fd28a14df853712d4ae37ab8e/56951719240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/kulazixetakusiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artin-intranet.com/ckupload/files/fojowetedaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c300258c1716ad38c718c55cc09b2d23/25052309313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydchem.cn/filespath/files/20210808024150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creptiles.dk/userfiles/file/26313962858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guijek.com/userfiles/file/pefibitofezijokumibemukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.ru/d/files/67809599165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zebuwowetemanorunoweza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/gotumalojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/87037159618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af85e4c5519---30597471930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/486288bee1dd6a78873ff69f39e48939/xosesunaveda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc020.com/userfiles/file/20210815191932_b3r2ck.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851e3a7f3dc---25200552241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finance-bulldog.cz/UserFiles/File/23218034515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a7512f698---46900077130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bb3e1465329372952a52ec210bb2e96/73415970045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adbbbaeqjtsflbfms0e.xn--p1ai/pict/file/fojevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=redaccion+de+textos+administrativos+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_off0000c9a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9A8 18468 bytes
SHA-256: ec32e32929e4ab9c6b5623d0dcfc45addb5aade7c30126fca07eeb71c3235c4a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FBB 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 29a8204e481a6b3516662c8a9e5b30dbb86c95f69950d23b22ed18ef06b4bd66