Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42a92ffc138a568f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 16:09:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f41e608b395fd20e84bb6f01e8d73e58 SHA-1: 00fd56a0ffea9be9f002760aede63f43275540c7 SHA-256: 42a92ffc138a568f5e776c6e3f8fde11f083bed264b2f431abeaedca2c7785bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple external URIs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=t+mobile+iphone+hotspot PDF link annotation
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613446dbb3899---nugejikekirowavefir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/luvapemupilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fapannimario.it/userfiles/files/jerilutij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcpsystem.com/userData/board/file/fezajuwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatmfc.com/media/ftp/file/53193403653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehla.eu/userfiles/file/42217854373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/63442726037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://take114.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_6522C54273F564C5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://singlesync.com/userfiles/file/33134221417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a16704013---66775933965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotterdampools.com/contents/files/40512561504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe42a890deceaf9fd0969682660c5917/23461479855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95219420258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacionecla.org/resources/original/file/xerokiratubafutanet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6059443618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2o4aljhc22mhkgk51antb9vkl/litelijumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anninh247.info/upload/files/poduzozediwativepumabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/garamojosemarusakurofifef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bikipvuikhoedep.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/vibigama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipllaser.in/uploads/bugotoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decorstore.eu/upload/file/penawoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vatlieutaphu.com/upload/files/19284693011.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_off0000e694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE694 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000feab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEAB 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 8340d4dce0b9b84b3b43aa6a9569a31ef551a7b1fb72dd0e1c1562c5d8ec9fca
font_02_sfnt_off00011593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11593 18464 bytes
SHA-256: 9f7e8c340a3b269c78e0fee3b8fe7691aa5ac5ab6cb655fb1c9cc6ee9071ed00