Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42c26b7035bf4205…

MALICIOUS

PDF

152.8 KB Created: 2021-06-20 18:52:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 9b1fb13712cd2cf6234626569316ea6f SHA-1: 7f16fb2256c18474567594214574766368b4c002 SHA-256: 42c26b7035bf4205bea71083e547fbfd577e8e11e58c0fc9c6ccd99b4e29c640
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9992

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://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqcf2qpose2r5242id6jg7km4t/20809538860.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78d2d84bce56c0281aac41dbfffd8de7/70223450414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c41a3fe2004---matogolepab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092665fa7371---79092132608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb447e0f0637901cf8397d8813b97ed6/rerido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966be4ec7fa---jevetuxupulumasudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterreducer.cn/d/files/rufinikezexivufil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgjbreunion.com/clients/6/69/6950e03db8b1ea894755b369f0a03c31/File/lekuxovibupuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childconcern.in/trila/userfiles/file/70211547253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl1971.com/clients/5/51/517263f0417f9379c67e6eba0e0bdfe8/File/18843950859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae51a2ab1fb---51588268831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wabosapefovedemuvuxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844048dc93f---maxubujuwigimirilapabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=vinayaka+vratha+kalpam+telugu+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000177fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x177FA 5468 bytes
SHA-256: 755bfd8d6eea3fe390520022354e6769d7c8dfc9ebfd886a7ab62d3ad6b7c83d
font_01_sfnt_off00018a7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18A7F 3720 bytes
SHA-256: d5ecec3e822993868ba70e247019bcdb656a9fee58d620eb93bc70658e929280
font_02_sfnt_off000195e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x195E0 89792 bytes
SHA-256: 5cf1d72916dc881d5bb50ebf82816e6c13c847a54283938dec663760d740384b
font_03_sfnt_off00023350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23350 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 810267ecda05aae30f1c1f317c74f8d9cbc1a77eeaf9dce091416481ef9e7931