Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42437e04b64df532…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:53:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 459c4cc2ee21a6cc6ec0761b26ef1121 SHA-1: 705d04ccb813f3cd309fcfbe0ef9624edac480a3 SHA-256: 42437e04b64df53274504e1f13065475edc6c449df591a7af1baadeaf5f6d35f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document's structure and embedded URLs are consistent with a phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/13126052171.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nuocmambason.com/upload/fckimagesfile/fa5b35631b0d415de87e126072ae09fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeyadhurgatemple.com/userfiles/file/gewowimanonever.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/bidalowidezobidupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c38afbae7837541e4bca97ff2bb13e3/buvisezoxuluwabulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/9682593759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/vedina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/24431212563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/wokatufufupavaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/voxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/koqe199mgqpn8io6uk477qbdq1/xigazuwapaxadupoxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc8158cbb1---82079746142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.de/fichiers/newsletter/file/jupefenefemariwile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad02a4b3332---mosepaminumetozavirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/numazuliwibibivemajole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135612d02a51---48032624735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c2437ae3f399748ef9d2ec581b1d979/tisajetafox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608edb16bcaf5---21768235519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/rekejokokebetiwiwutav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2181ab24a---40126320139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://binhchuachay.info/Images_upload/files/50189553088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22b24b605cdab898f8e57c457a66c5e6/befigiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dilipprabhavalkar.com/images/file/vutemafepivajawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vv-alc.nl/uploads/files/vives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=outlier+analysis+second+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000d2ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2CA 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 8a8f5c951b1fed22e78086c3aaab65106cf65a87452a2c0d2f22d1654311f495
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC04 17588 bytes
SHA-256: dd3d133da6f7003b53aff36fd14b29e802bc15fddd6bc285eb5efc498157fad5
font_02_sfnt_off0001196c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1196C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1