Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42b7b9b7472e7d93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-17 04:00:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a8534612bbf165f1ade923fd4135a25d SHA-1: 26725b90676a0c7cf3226441f9524c2e5febdbe8 SHA-256: 42b7b9b7472e7d93ac6854ab090fca1c66722266419995d1364bb0037e75360f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm directing users to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous external links, some pointing to disposable hosting, reinforces the link farm attack pattern.

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://www.ijmsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wexutawajotateri.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iobe1hls29615lmlfcn8tbk9ht/ratibabapepubajetovona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5824b461bad1a10688a2616e8d65e9f4/rakadugefivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/40087266288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/77512004522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/befamigebejataw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/gomowadipugid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/gijefix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/fusibugimewiwuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/wubudumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipforiraq.com/userfiles/files/71963535623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/toxutukepudopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://midasspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40859170351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog//file/12073425817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibinetweek.ru/userfiles/file/33318360379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalnetworks.de/www.galabau-poscher.de/main/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ranuzurisivejutaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a04571005540975d5e584c0c4c25f867/zikoturegiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3c4bb5a40cea29a2a7765171fdf930e/dowupogutopijuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pampa.be/uploads/userfiles/files/dufop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0vb990iba6hcs7p5kcme2ki751/rakepolemomosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presstone.hu/userfiles/file/libakoradesudatesujowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e52305760---larurugasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eba47d884f9e6653fbe205c25f5de7ad/zubawimatixozele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=powerful+introduction+about+yourselfPDF 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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e54b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE54B 17196 bytes
SHA-256: b2870a32475d355fe1d3a27cf8d180bc32b6be98ed5fa2f56a91b086150031a8
font_01_sfnt_off0001119b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1119B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129B2 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 15bdb295937b92bc44ac2e8cef002f4abf3710c35b4d5808d0794edd4bcea2ae

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