Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42617512004bc091…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:52:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: add8618b4c8104ef0fd2c9fb1591573d SHA-1: 473f8ac4929e927ecf1533b75a3d989477e52735 SHA-256: 42617512004bc09189a86c07f18a17b2c5c3bc65a6526cc79ed67ed52bf7efb4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/39132024213.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58973313922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourbuilding.ru/userfiles/files/zulokazeguzaguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wasumosukodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/xarapekusetom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210705202849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/677654f0b9d0ffa609b0dac139b8e73a/98050396856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec4d71d269---63636491288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/1728224023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/sirexikaminelemep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/54477102453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a5f8858fb---zikadisiximoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8b500aed2---4427892137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/056m42b3igoie4143b5u6mgnnh/piwotolumegixuwasidaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878de448a94---fanawibolatata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab8ae97a63411be994d1ef609164aacc/28527135474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118d82e4ab3d---35035324185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kkjbm563fbbrnillj8fcf47osg/54834977620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtarrytowndeli.com/uploads/files/99706202594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektor28.ru/userfiles/file/90257292564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/96421742000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/33081142288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/15923628794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b7cd1abeb---wuwixanabip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-bau.com/ckfinder/upload/files/41704960059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=coupling+pipe+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_off0000d898.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD898 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AF 10276 bytes
SHA-256: 8a4bc4eba55ab5eb39de423672e1702d0be5df7be79709eafe2c5b62c019658e
font_02_sfnt_off000107a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A6 16924 bytes
SHA-256: 1d2fe6e1d3f2add3e920afddbb2e2bb88d2784877a0a7a47785708a3f74716ef