Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42170e3ee3752003…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 08:12:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b55531271d1552ad9c859bc3384dd74b SHA-1: 2e1d053ac43e8258e2032c7a2d6249b68dff7893 SHA-256: 42170e3ee3752003636c2544cc38948a2a28dd03ef6e81dfe77d1370835aa55a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links are likely designed to redirect users to malicious sites or download further malware, aligning with a phishing or credential harvesting attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9746

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://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3af5af6d929da6ed5ddaa463232fead4/84457876017.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://teaandtiarasmontreal.com/clients/f/f0/f03dfc1790708d0b03c48e9879ef2ea6/File/4640763887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/28634614002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appfacile.it/file/16008656093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doxikixopepakalumivemuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce9d5dd4334---buxeguliditari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9bacc41674---88639512386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hlete2r6sfj3ns5qvr4is3tot5/73789820954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/15212968273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8f4f1b2fce635e187e107b9e9c18af8/sudotagaragod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa8a8a3df661e89b3243a934fbbf6456/xafokobori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b44c646d6089b82d587f5425a73fa3aa/97334480166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af478cd5ab5ba9d2af3d7c21be5c07bd/6525015539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/fekufufoxozap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/nukitazefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9mdqds1s83msk7nhkmqcujejh/55632613199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/opulemipojilakofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bfcce3fb03407d7b6c5601446f364af/depobovevesita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c60b7ee1d---38383103874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893eca07ce1---39240101971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc82457da8---9479387302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/logazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bcd95cf42515d0e563be3bd8a429282/46889550755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9375d96b11b78a337e33235f5b73d130/zixujixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pololanna.com/user_img/files/46390522044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ju3o35sdbgvoltgdfs5cjfr01/30418346444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia6465.com/clients/f/fc/fcac8d81e62e7f23ed02b02243def538/File/mijikifebokafar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=so+be+surePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC96 17916 bytes
SHA-256: 8f468b885cb57c8fa9711297a0abaf6cf254f08de30883d25319450921f4b0ea
font_01_sfnt_off00010b0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0A 9912 bytes
SHA-256: d6e2f03ea206d74e869d2cea12c001cbac4d9777d48fe4fd91c1aa4a2e9a5218
font_02_sfnt_off00012108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12108 16100 bytes
SHA-256: 7ac375ee3f87dabf5a8aab9ef66de401914e669ce569ae72251ce3f3871ecaaa
font_03_sfnt_off00013657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13657 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1