Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42c7e2ad376b14e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-14 02:24:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 1c181d436cdc0276cae755552ac4be5b SHA-1: 0fb103ee7e88d5c7436858dc4656b7379ef58309 SHA-256: 42c7e2ad376b14e75709804253b514cd3a06417a4b22aa2ce31d9aa094d4ecbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery, likely via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79901844992.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://boracayg.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_452DCD1D459E51C6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readandenjoy.ae/userfiles/files/67086028153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gico.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85604567824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/41799396997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyalangkorapartment.com/userfiles/file/sinesujagamimuzapekeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613baa3424255---37521759319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/79486338508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/18271914822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/zajuwuwetijab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovecongtruong.com/upload/files/beromu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/89695576676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauti-full.ru/uploads/files/gazozonuruxefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/marimagatulewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d66aa2cfe4c4d280e16e18d5f7b9b3b/zufijapivakanefapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erh-hu.com/userfiles/file/fixumufogerumipidike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/xasogizekewose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96a051aec23a8c8c2b5828d393842d71/92027057957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncsccalgary.com/userfiles/files/bumufevukebujove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/weduda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanharteyoga.nl/uploads/files/81073064751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/4285498251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldpension-luebben.de/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/29830808639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giasidaily.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kovawevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/36005586436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+off+screen+notifications+on+androidPDF 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_off0000d770.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD770 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF82 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 25197daddec6cce5be2b2805d4f833e8f466941422b0727eeb4c1e58091f6d55
font_02_sfnt_off00011d85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D85 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 1e2b9b0172aae112b77b17011034a5749109efb78320598990c8c205fb7f12dc