Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42b82b89db4bc2d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:52:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 45d2fe958a0ec74b53f51722bdb96fd0 SHA-1: 95cf24064981ee6fb68e930c33b3026df3601bc7 SHA-256: 42b82b89db4bc2d4c2476ae5f939e67395cf364a2fb57978d4ff5ca536d9ffa2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210522044210381109525.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/8044997710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/40299032583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/30636222233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a880ef17778---5327227828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/kuxugexaxozagubonoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852bf076c46---73051634804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/luneziposimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/25475145963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogo110.com/userfiles/file/lafivon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/bapukarazunugogifafip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championshipsportsrings.com/clients/23492/File/lowafugaxanonixawasokidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/jifiriviboruvukajasakirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704c7f4d5d6---mojunaludedokul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ne3doe768n224gocs3naa1snk/8318938056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiroyoung.com/data/files/lamuwatasudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb213edee6d---39323282747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaf8a925adf972759d9e46d6f70a6ccd/wororuzoxuralujozulaxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4ol8r4j2sffpge9b5c09t412o/zetof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9e7613f38---xusafibigaxakopapewikagap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/38732406511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.ca/upload/editor/file/rezogopepiwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=side+effects+of+black+seed+capsulesPDF 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_off0000ee4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001065f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1065F 16316 bytes
SHA-256: a14e59e124f1414fbecde22b1fa30312db3392a041249aa8f2b621bd66a39527
font_02_sfnt_off0001307e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1307E 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 6a1d095fa728a433f04b6fee7af416d81b5b2f5490c336fb306306f6028dd09c