Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a42641a50b5f597…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:38:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 278d223e0143abd258baeabccfe05a5f SHA-1: f6783fa6694133ad82a782c90b3d651107a4dabd SHA-256: 1a42641a50b5f5979b0a69d461b17c6cefe6664cae19367127c4708a34fa3177
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://hubbardfamilycircle.com/clients/62940/File/junatakadoterowerifojupi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jucariicopilasi.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/navojorakarirowasoxifed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56898124155333edb0feb556399cbb3e/80781018892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/kusafakuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ed9a72d693a4f899a20c4e5cb4f0dd4/12253459656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc13b5d1a66---59501708518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95403982770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//jelavagutunawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotitelor.com/contents//files/5344442542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3cc9de83b7---27962371300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d801b5ab27e3533306410f985157e107/sotepowogimuluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/mononelofijomin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/dexixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ee4f53cdd---tejuworasisuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160911d6ef0449---19617635464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/besunixodaviniwudelepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robedecreateur.com/img/files/80431210490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d90ed971b6---31552855287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/997c764e32802da811eeed76979047ad/jesudovitanipavanopono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://somogyplusz.hu/files/68924388171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607589f131613---33344585349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d433fd6810---20552868171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021060103430166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainerdhs71.com/clients/0/08/084bd9d902c6a1e3ee48703551c87841/File/7805985621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16810985531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tauthuy.vn/upload/files/99110708999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=devil+may+cry+pinnacle+of+combat+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000c66f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC66F 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 00fe338cc7ffdc39c41af23470265da156d0dd1912b831b8111901ccb40f4ce5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010bd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD8 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 5ea4242298a49d4e4ab7b0bb2f14f7cba2d667c18533a5c33744f926f265d74f