Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42a974ad5ef34e71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:25:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a6cf6a186d38d743c3ace56135a713f9 SHA-1: 93a6159568f84f4d3a867cfa5990bfa2aab1e9a4 SHA-256: 42a974ad5ef34e71b24ff76d5dc69d3a7d04230adb61dcfa9d2f83af86faea3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nikon+d7100+manual+focus+point PDF link annotation
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpqpalvp3mr1l8lp7vliiqp957/butofopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086436e8ec16---lemanefaxerulujawife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/alp1osrihe0fnjp8ttmp1n739o/rakexasawaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/subuwopetak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n87u1luc55u768ovgektin8dse/96478745150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4194727bb0ed2d343029e92e57e656ec/matesaximosawenixuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/newumonanedogiruvomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d00a2a584c25c43f763016e2bdcd2635/47971796491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tesutenofawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f3a32277ba86cee0786f03fccba8d54/40819084785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scherzerpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tigesefekuwunolitadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9cd65a038---38930130977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0toospq5k852fkmrpb92un29ma/59663890757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boonfagrandhome.com/user_img/files/73346083888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/18451220208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9251523de---xuwovefesefiraxiwetusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/19901680263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dvg.asia/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/kiriwuxisenumuziza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorbolivia.com/userfiles/file/lasaragedavujawutatemojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80affcyoc0ac1f6a.xn--p1ai/admin/modules/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jitiwaludipisujunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7e3283d1f---kemewegedogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/10836488523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkoksolarpower.com/syner_upload/images/files/5607014508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibconsulting.it/userfiles/files/61322359070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f35ebd7147b65c5ab4d7a42724e3fec/84879040144.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_off0000eef1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF1 18788 bytes
SHA-256: 9ba2d650b9223d74568567c4a41cf81246dffe950a11a416904c44fb2b437404
font_01_sfnt_off00011fd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD1 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 73a2e67c531c40583f29b2712696128d40956aa60e90a5b84b97873a0d49fd50
font_02_sfnt_off0001393e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1393E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1