Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42dcd9f31951fc29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-08-09 15:06:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a079320cda65bef38c255fe5ffd2ad31 SHA-1: fd514645a9641bb5612ac2448027d400df612c29 SHA-256: 42dcd9f31951fc295d432d99afb979b89287c7880b73a13b3078c5552f7c7c1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://yhbinternational.com/userfiles/file/fodakuganozi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/19596923209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cbd174dc0---sujewejozobam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariekevanvlierden.nl/survey/userfiles/files/zudexarizeret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefarmatarapahoecounty.com/userimages/xorazurinaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741cd1a4dde---23440750663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d26077ad4---rirapabuxefibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098633a144bc---41902482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/gebukurefoves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cda547333fdf27b82791628346a4a45/tapojufijurobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/51016758418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/dufemasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/fowakafoxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettelhaiphong.me/data/dulieu/files/rafipudapawawafezege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607150efe40d0---64359064148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/kevuwejaponenir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850805996a5---pagexizanebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38578174310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5840ab5f52---96449451284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ortodonciaelisafarache.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14259144129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ac3f00ea023381688f2426f14564905/87407802501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d8e4736beb---pabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/ruzutefowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=toro+battery+weed+eater+manualPDF 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_off0000eb66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB66 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 3273f3049dbf9248529c79c9d55eec639b1ecb288e23ba63b9bfe56ee7b0ba0c
font_01_sfnt_off00010384.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10384 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 3c8a8eec7e16543640b56e17a96f5c01cf244ca54d3c14438fec415d5bbcbf8f
font_02_sfnt_off00012eea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1