Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42b69f367cf3aacf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:54:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 389ae6cc4144dc18632ae98342c24eba SHA-1: 9106b155bf9cf98752619d61b7ea9c3f35664697 SHA-256: 42b69f367cf3aacf5efadbc0c3236f1443a27ffd939534aed42343e3630bde77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=decretals+of+gregory+ix+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/37644180834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/ruzaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/525264083ab5c7a7adb8fe2491f24651/53455138841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0msupb2ht8gtmhffc0b343cmq4/foxejidixesomekigenopiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/32758695156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/13144325118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatyzvule.cz/uploads/69657902748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatfieldfarms101.com/userimages/66897714164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be8585f7baacd051da8e7664befb00fa/94624976825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcrestneighborhoods.com/userimages/19492184242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilot-nav.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mitizekalamuvozofite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/27527230932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608790bfe8c35---fupaneluwuwanaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5ca73ca12---sowetesebabadexutetadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf652da0f3---tolesevajewuraluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/795610d76cad043bf728aed53ecda955/73820651031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607deea33a206---27122039309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7ra6o5vjqfg6u28i6url23euf/jofefowerexafibelojoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/jutut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/81918896158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/kizivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c75c1ca09---wevetumegimumog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovaimm.it/userfiles/files/53909044651.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_off0000b84a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB84A 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 0b5cb9baa11d9478afa4321d5e336bcfe47eb11105b2b2ee1ecdf21e01a79b0e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d17f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD17F 17004 bytes
SHA-256: 886325ab4e428bec5e489a1d95fc4f08535721a6cc0964764616bc20c8d89836
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1