Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 242cb3f6ea627b73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:02:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: cd07edb1c5bd94ffaa29cf4cef63360d SHA-1: c63c3572f44e00b68979e549996d9229911f29e6 SHA-256: 242cb3f6ea627b73bba67613a0c7460fb94100d06350ab348f4c00a7af3abe6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=structure+of+education+system+in+japan+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://lovelyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1168287630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f75e50aaa---bijubifunaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h61reiiqlu1ae49nf8vl3pnc76/73601513271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b319249b827---sisalatadasajamudawax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/fazapixazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratosatu.com/contents/files/damopozasejomewurofomij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/guratevejufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/darojiwagezude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a0b5753a38435fca81e6522b2f03dd4/55370093457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsjsbzrw.com/uploads/files/tolodapanosavaluvevopalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/62762993397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maketmaster.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14759339302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c36c97a0b69c0357c6466b98105b0bf/sezegosegofemawowoboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/jofinujifabuvedoratimed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/xadobemuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdd51543867---73105465024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919d8b102d6---32569754654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e02d7894d49ac41e20b564fa37e8d3c/dubivesevilojudologovin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df335d15817bce723e632dbbca32fbd5/97808246384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/82773713590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgweld18.com/UploadFile/file/20210819085758412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismofattorialucciano.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12652915597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/ruwubuwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igescanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fadevarajiwuxu.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_off0000e613.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE613 11152 bytes
SHA-256: a3855518129d0756d80d33ed300ff7f52c6e8c841a4bc0953370fda04e2036c0
font_01_sfnt_off0001001f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1001F 20608 bytes
SHA-256: 8714abf88c7ae1136ea2f771cf1d4e5ce1a847df70b69a9ac957aa183ba8feb2
font_02_sfnt_off000135bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1