Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42a57268c03f4f6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:13:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1a3bfe20b5901fea2dad3fd2e59e164b SHA-1: 4a71d7140852735bc67c9b88e27de78e5eb53ab2 SHA-256: 42a57268c03f4f6e666946bc7c61911ebbc3e5f80a52d94a55e1e2ad80664ec6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, including those hosted on compromised Content Management Systems (CMS). This suggests a phishing or redirection scheme designed to lead users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://wrhs1967.org/clients/6/61/617565fc8afb9cc6d18abf932d248b7a/File/23464344779.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6840378741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/tofamub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b3b20ffd2---kanivajinapovawopulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822f84879ce---dutesadofewigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/71898394945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jutuwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artstudiodesign.it/userfiles/files/redujezekitiledi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisewood50th.com/clients/3/35/35ca2b70ae131fa39667c240906a3fe4/File/sajolute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profesa.net/userFilesfile/vikizimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0uudkjg4g3p65k8r4tqk438sg/14481517199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minutemen-jrotc.com/clients/84940/File/56736703963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608573e672c3d---58077910536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089bf08477c5---wovokaxigozujapupivajadep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8fd2b4409b---rubexonovivejajovawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8q1ag9t9geuo13gi6c6ofur37/pavupagiwemozafezemuxowaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedfightalliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokibijezivepuvitiduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9b0a6e9146f92005865c469e1fe6f80/binafune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanraimundo.cl/dyn/uploads/file/rokodekunozekega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netwindowvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/16004176140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nnetworks.com/files/others/zokuderavulavilufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/rogofebataroxebomuturede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/nezawabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fccd54bea6---10460098541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=sankt+martin+lied+noten+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_off0000bd76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD76 10660 bytes
SHA-256: e2413790b4aa01dece472919c1111f32bf62a0fda5290a44e5cd8201cd7ceb5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ede5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE5 17472 bytes
SHA-256: 4d19e40ddfcfcab776cdbb47e8e1954656610a636ae8f419508d3c8f603c85c4