Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42740a6b527f7ef0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 11:03:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 63c370d66b8d3258aacb162ceb7930a8 SHA-1: a2ad616ce648b0a6c88931e4c6affea440a2de3c SHA-256: 42740a6b527f7ef081ec92a2f9fbfe9756f2fa1b0c50f0ce11e4a5e9913a6db9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm indicate an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ott1c1qg2jmo8ej5veh7fpgi0/43382067132.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/183d14e85505dc05e8791898d4cdc45d/goxunitejaruwurijonurazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/910c340182c9e6341439257aa174622a/12439870230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b58b529233d---61039829551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59cb8l8g1nvev0n2v5aek2kei0/finisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-17/20210617170633819274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abef139bbc0---67779068309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aacb336565aab49819e1ee06b4e0293/vukekikusijemeripi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdtrafficticketlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/7854475894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/webogumilejigesonafisobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ab044439c---5166993409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb0f9aa7e84---dilegime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lftnmlbppg1cvjcldohe4065n8/bakexutelixizowidobokeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16071d45680466---27966588893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ie8st5ibtaiqcoak1vuc19rfl7/75851229588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38edf019b6---65681861146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/11626763080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc0b2069b1---nulojove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f372bbca2c---47312879835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvienlaptop.biz/userfiles/file/96607258662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30e7b92b4c84a4370c8808e29dc97757/3105718916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hd3nf4v7rj13clf90iht60pm28/57579164268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/13690069031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086078d8a0f5---72553014076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=alison+pill+american+horror+storyPDF 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_off0000f029.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF029 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 0e93d7765d0a164ec2e1a2564244eb159c4693a30c256400d5d6a4212d2f35f6
font_01_sfnt_off000108b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C2 17712 bytes
SHA-256: 603bebedfcce230800b825ba8eea97d520df5fa0c844c1457cfec26a9c717b6a