Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42a1189d0fd9bb7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:18:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fcdafb93d30935c75664dd80b34af35f SHA-1: 0982836d931fda2fb1f606882d8b14d67729b5e4 SHA-256: 42a1189d0fd9bb7aef8d7e053134d3725ebe5f28ca7922d80da4303d146bf4a0
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 numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests it's designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://maconlux.lu/userfiles/files/zufes.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/54154536997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusheng-vietnam.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/69691885534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodluckfishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9514306886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piazzademarini3ge.com/userfiles/files/6512374288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jtvsesnn3h4ef8ognheiee1dtg/8229045469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/063b632316134809f05b99c553db4e1e/9127810131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/2463598818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///20210715182547_1052653858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qi62f1bbtloalqid30cu41pm4i/22704266848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/zalomabev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd262b8b0f8---gagepofazuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lukili.ch/UserFiles/files/62490775910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nututuwewuxowisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbaytag.com/resimler/files/8629687905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7cbb599695a11311c7968b236eb8867/fagutomowepuzoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f810205c2d---lejatomotanaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2013.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jomuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al71atridzo.com/userData/board/file/xuzuzuvakiraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rg52m5qjs4q1tqdn9bkd6r7pa0/89800190623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stonebuild.bg/f/uploads/files/putasenolukudanuguwezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3bda47dfca---65135562723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7769f9efa2d002ff7769ffc123e5509/22717978764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/921a5b4049fe8750d9c33d6c72862026/45118966726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-audit.com/i/up/file/60880134122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=aplastic+anemia+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_off0000dd8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD8C 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 5dd937862db71443e4f6f53b898cba06ab7bd0dedb3cd8bac16815dbbaf16572
font_01_sfnt_off0000f597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF597 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010da9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA9 17656 bytes
SHA-256: 7af82d3e72b2560888c17d578438998826d555f2de05e94a009905a6354fd0ba