Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42d3ed7baae11fc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 22:47:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 432b805bd9ee34aedb2dcdfc45c4b0d5 SHA-1: 8c6b4b911cb3c66c8305a117433de16f346fa710 SHA-256: 42d3ed7baae11fc29147176d687f0ab3d47d8f5feb723e0b2ea7fdbbe75d944f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and potentially disposable hosting domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF's structure suggest it is designed to lead users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution, aligning with the Spearphishing Attachment technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wallpapers+for+redmi+note+9 PDF link annotation
    • http://oreoltour.ru/sites/default/files/file/37010825173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liily.jp/upload/file/20210906200915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/35438999042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-metalparts.com/d/files/59305720054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133dc9ea5cd0---retegunibitolevive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/disoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prshots.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52306550698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90b2aa0fb83f5e19b7156f45f9b35dc0/sonif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/35554967716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakesushilakehavasu.com/uploads/files/11138804998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkmeiqi.com/admin/ckfinder/upfile/files/74722785983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-etalon.ru/upload/files/bopilekodokufuvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/62482943020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bompentax.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/mijoludije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-burbank.com/uploads/files/rivakifobanew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20210916185202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a298b372e3f9588a25b96386c5fd3e26/75604857373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210916000707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161406bd15b9ae---87024192882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/39930237873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161414459bda5d---57110805356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/runonilixokiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.casestilistas.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gewuvebuwegizudoxulimok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wct.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/wosezenaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vngo-cc.vn/cooker/public/files/welekemob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ba6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA6B 15952 bytes
SHA-256: 176839af41edf94309b395e51c88ac35aeb284f4471999e9abd541c61c97a4dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e307.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE307 10820 bytes
SHA-256: d05de1534bd2135ba5fc4eede7a041072d2900677c105b4e3abf268903fa3955
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1