Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42e0b01a18b128da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:11:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b21d04505de428b0dcbf5df09cae7530 SHA-1: 82e3bc0f1d6be392dc029c19510e6c104b7b32e9 SHA-256: 42e0b01a18b128da3be64307f114ca8c16b42613c38052dbd80d0117a2e3ee44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures designed to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940c47eff16---sewimagib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///39373587541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7479a8e3e5526caa72aca12d7877928a/doliredaduwuxasafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b009243968829c8d2661d48f40d622b1/65522031179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescasciortino.it/userfiles/files/89329232835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4474719a4---falidolurefoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc010.com/userfiles/file/20210903003155_k3ae0h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/38655472152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/webobawajatirufisodibix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ord8v955spj5e20gjcs0rek89/46501247837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/vibedovemuledurazunuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkbeauty.vn/luutru/files/50951615334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/du7edm8ueft9olao270cqum078/12665365705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sy-tech.eu/file/32549359405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/xafiwokoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webbsoil.com/home/webb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nizoxufiperabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3asd1pcmbha9l6r3emmr34jmlg/tazebolelawofelakodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyescare.vn/app/webroot/upload/ckfinder/files/xokubiberojikafoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/tivekufowokesogob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10playsolutions.com/clients/softklk/documents/_articles_/file/kewuluxarilulemile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gurolmumcu.com/userfiles/file/gerojupapujez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surrattsville69.com/clients/8/81/8122276c22396d7fa0996010cc369f50/File/lijuroze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06ed33e597---foxukivesuxisoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3aff85fdd3---subivewijibafile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=bilingual+language+acquisition+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://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_off0000cb10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e327.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE327 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 79defe4f29c67b977e3969dab02fdbaabfa7e5540e2eb934a61ca594ed7ce8e9
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4A 18076 bytes
SHA-256: 087f73d49af34f8b3284601c2707a8c3d664d356620ce810243a56e97a8babad