Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42275139870455e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB Created: 2021-07-20 01:12:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3f169ae99f99d547d3c2d76d52fc8a3e SHA-1: c54f75a411e04e50b1d724872e6dca280ab7f555 SHA-256: 42275139870455e03a0ac8cdb073313fde820bec02c65c875cd8779a0fae5a1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting sites. The primary goal appears to be to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://hocngoaingu123.com/upload/files/mezosuwoxilitifekoziju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taxusuginarojetodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7btu28n0u3j98ukarm8jfekuvu/52806256426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9e106953b---34254935417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160931d45446e1---93253013680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607419ffe874a---41188259326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a015316d580---xofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7b89a88834---68470799992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8fc19accc8---lobovemobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e11afcc9ccbe7ce2ae1f5aeb3ac0863/kuxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080aeec3b778---39848253079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e38f9929395---luzanetefipidipabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/8845222427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eiak.org/upload/editor/files/xojoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160becb330e02e---dafuxiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euredit-editions.com/userfiles/file/zaponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everestart.com/images/stories/file/4390695086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/toripizumive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/pelevoxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-oilfieldequip.ru/d/files/ziranunisewomeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5orjdmungnqon53n4av0cu93i/30689108470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcrp0nkq7olkqql2vicmuhflul/54979084435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/24034406151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smle86ffkl6hpbvc0acrbl3006/puvawixenuzubigiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalbando.com/DATA/upload/files/202106202241301055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=hawaii+vehicle+registration+cost+militaryPDF 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_off00011da2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA2 10932 bytes
SHA-256: e96753143697319789160d34051aa11c0152b6b50b9cf3ae3d2e93a04e47b880
font_01_sfnt_off000136d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136D3 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 76903e6a751597e3cc6593d10cba8e46d4e62731eda0fd782f13c7691beca51e
font_02_sfnt_off00016319.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16319 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1