Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42734f7b1237cdf8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-30 16:04:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4a276080539143efa482f8e94d31daff SHA-1: 65dce3f2f21b0d1a5f68cd971397d592b0b37628 SHA-256: 42734f7b1237cdf8d73843a03a4254483647331be16d81da8246ce58c9b15627
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to domains associated with compromised content management systems or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/68878908236.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/dimaxijafaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakkue.com/contents/files/24226227980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubemakingmachine.com/uploadfile/files/gikobojeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erainbowrealty.com/userfiles/file/jabosorijepusevimovosurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/zewujuborupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/xapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/nirimul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://powerfalcon.net/uppic/files/fukirakodod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2f33a472fdae76ace6094446d5119e5/40146772551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinacoma3.vn/userfiles/file/34295480806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14927650969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegeny.hu/uploads/file/bolirosonadugosebas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/14967224172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartwealthhk.com/userfiles/59627788746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d4eaf1c7949aeaf7e8dbb33dcb9c51b/55059548565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theurbanthinktank.com/files/nutemopifetarifudosuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/zegel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ffcef8e678---61784580009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jor-agric-aqua.com/user_img/files/lufibekukabipumebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/39083057914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artin-intranet.com/ckupload/files/medefowubekema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whatproperty.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wavawenewatezukutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=mixed+future+tenses+exercises+advanced+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_off0000ade4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADE4 15260 bytes
SHA-256: ffc8b4604f1ebd26eff3e286c646bd03010d511fe02bb5d1668f8e65c633e168
font_01_sfnt_off0000d451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD451 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC68 10708 bytes
SHA-256: ee65a74d3a10128e3478781d20983d40cee23ed3cc2f4e8c743e2aadcbe80caa