Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42d4f5e160083680…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-08-17 02:28:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ff46a22f5b10d0a1f70ca82310cc8988 SHA-1: 0eb1fde976ed67d5380664b40b054a6d27d9d5a6 SHA-256: 42d4f5e160083680f680b8385ba1c57fee8facc94600213e27155a22132a1179
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/59624950061.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/bonude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://print-printonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59790961079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/zagofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbf1c4efa7---lisodapaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67422367068d88cbb7b3825418c99dff/39604019632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/52333577366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impactcleaningserviceskc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b498acd4b7e7290cafe0bd202491614a/95485724244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/jimitemesodonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coronado1977.com/clients/54390/File/sojifudixunonukepezibobik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm-co.ru/foto/ck/files/mowuxigubimiwuvusupudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pepinieres-soupe.com/userfiles/file/11334896546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefineart.com/assets/202108/files/20210811221917732426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f67e94d7a9---ladidelamepuranuboxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/gexijakaxetuludurigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/398osk9v3smvjkvec94bt6g1g2/wetaxegixezulozuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoklej.pl/app/webroot/media/files/jixowokedikekopekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084abf21d70b---tabive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/nopumapegujizoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/file/94440987838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammatrans.com/userfiles/files/27976372659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=appsc+dao+previous+papers+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD480 17152 bytes
SHA-256: 9a5a8674c39514eb838e4c848ceb987708e6db27aa7129153c6d33c5fdcb3c28
font_01_sfnt_off000100fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011915.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11915 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 93480858da5260133a71eca1ef5cef826547aaff40d771d17bd0f18917d376a7

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