Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42c155cb7358ba5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:52:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: dace3446ac9ef1d833c2b34b089d8a1f SHA-1: f2f794c4afbc96340e2de8e845692151300a1e33 SHA-256: 42c155cb7358ba5ab58bbac851b255947be3cb4da4d4f535d0f3705538ad3ed1
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 0.9947

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://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dac9b593d08---90871088681.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4t073vgie3adggndd63to6fto0/632240043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/805948d427704ff006f33df3820f0d7c/18665260704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e79e20854fdb9713679985a9ba69abc6/remigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/bakulukilibivipaxejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelindigha.com/FCKeditor/file/76796353839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/82253130753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemiigori.com/uploads/file/10919554769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/menejaxiwumaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/vozidipotukejebusajiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/24673563735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/tezojowunaginiluse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhs63.org/clients/8/88/88ec95b665b56da82b1de85f097fba10/File/92936322958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761d4acb681---35141954300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3d436c64727c9bb1167459f6b4b1701/nogawupovewikigumezamuvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/98223797141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80978424565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b64228b21c---52725662082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prairieroseclothiers.com/FCKeditor/file/savitazopujijitok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e31f49931b---31113825468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97bdfaf1a6---juvoxodimil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866421da6f6---79785191139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itacademyindia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73308320044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mspchicagolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/24305488393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=gained+knowledge+synonymPDF 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_off0000efa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA7 10724 bytes
SHA-256: cc138d31420e2f66ca44627aff461ff1f1d41ac374087c3c1417ae017e934b16
font_01_sfnt_off0001081a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1081A 18796 bytes
SHA-256: 8d92dd639fcd6dbe7868dd9cbb8276da60ae5864b4d2df5accc0a49d24d7b2ed
font_02_sfnt_off000138e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1