Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42a51040eb4b8c8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 23:52:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 63e7efaf4ce2b2babe103c5d9239dba3 SHA-1: 193122eca158da02da90281abce690e945033224 SHA-256: 42a51040eb4b8c8e1895303560a70919ec318da1ae7d21bb03acdc88a671d5ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content, such as phishing pages or malware download sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is leveraged for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+pes+ppsspp+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://shyjjc.com/v15/Upload/file/2021921312286909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i2cgbor5gq0m9nt4robs46n7bm/64261486087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31aa493f5b87caf9cb651893ed57d7cb/lemubelojomuriralifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613818a11f5b6---gusidekiruluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youxsoft.com/uploads/files/10249425117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorrstrechy.cz/UserFiles/File/dezizirina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/514ae45c9be3d105117a41c95345af8d/93766701507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masihpt1.com/contents/files/pedawafesorukifoxutigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikdercollegeofpharmacy.com/scp/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/96589110849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buzascsaba.hu/userFiles/file/rizekatifosoruzeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/kagemusirotusomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://25630638.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/durefivesobamorur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technoarc.net/userfiles/file/64581233962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/8230668109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copyjokertw.aw6.tw/uploadfile/qu4_qu106_com/files/22036538993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8911f297a1b3cc5839e53415401b8e34/mesuzelexegulemokizadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake-tori.com/images/library/File/kapikevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riviera.az/userfiles/file/matawarafenitanirikazoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents/files/xerojemivapisituxekaves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aromamarketing.md/img/files/27785474313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldkxzzs.com/images/userfiles/file/vikotisuwudetozototo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://89928386.com/uploads/files/202109130847245374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cbg9dihj7egda2g6a7dceb1d2cp4nvgf4f.com/datas/files/19385786568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travellifeafrica.com/ci/userfiles/files/wivikibenekojap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/wigubitarunujupipiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dd10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD10 10424 bytes
SHA-256: dac9eb3f70d5cf56c008886c944f72fc7eb62b890bb170833291ef6560383df5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E5 19356 bytes
SHA-256: ca3ecfc5aa734adadb083423ff1d22d4ff97a2e86ed579c9c74164b055dc9adc
font_02_sfnt_off00012796.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12796 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1