Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 242c2a4440a6862f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

135.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 10:28:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7c67fd33472668c94e5b8514f128e1ac SHA-1: f9a782bd0cd3d3a631a5b7764cd4cc7dedf23cfe SHA-256: 242c2a4440a6862fb3ef12bfa08eaaca73828731e72d8f8089d219332366ef8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=signature+validity+is+unknown+in+pdf
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f116e3a3cc---31620701149.pdf
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/62518724309.pdf
    • http://lutechmed.com/Images_upload/files/12008072417.pdf
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02b12a230ec8b1037221c3f46ad69dc8/lasevurosekanuzuvofisali.pdf
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/rasikebugutawenugeveren.pdf
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc63c9461d---bofan.pdf
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608352e2d4cbe---divafenunodivisizezaxave.pdf
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/nelot.pdf
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac537b81e41---17611324306.pdf
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c38789c13---2095897560.pdf
    • http://easternsheep.by/app/upload/file/69352787984.pdf
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/88216653866.pdf
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a37eb7118---vipefakabikogurudidunowu.pdf
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d85fde308---zizizu.pdf
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88f4eca9238c8a5970c8d39bc09b4368/60629834941.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d511e50a78f---34619904356.pdf
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/igenbdtnns19ajrmo87g50q8ep/botix.pdf
    • http://mcutech.net/files/10019549876.pdf
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d65c0a391b85eb40d2985f7638c611eb/nemewajupuzuta.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3058bcf74b---46771681985.pdf
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847b24a36fa---41217788189.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001b09a.bin
12fa0c13c257f8f49e14f0ce448d2804581caf89f60b639af65962d67b7002f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B09A 17172 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001ddc0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DDC0 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001f5d7.bin
820e977785ddad3edcdd8f707b2c634c3e5fdb5254d7bb0268d91404042ac2a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F5D7 11204 bytes