Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42e0c0a0e2f6c18f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-25 12:42:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c43cb0c6226756acf252dd09fd2fb62c SHA-1: ffdbda142ab6da17fe165794b36383560500537a SHA-256: 42e0c0a0e2f6c18ffb9255f74998b77a811f452cdeb7a95a6758adda5ec57cf0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a URL with 'utm_term=activation+code+for+autocad+2017' indicates a phishing lure related to software activation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=activation+code+for+autocad+2017
    • https://goldfieldssanddrags.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lolidunogiwovenamazegigi.pdf
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/42256139233.pdf
    • https://tjp2-hotlink-j3t.com/contents/files/91161279175.pdf
    • https://kompaspt2.com/contents/files/98140413351.pdf
    • http://khiensa.com/UserFiles/File/40979473026.pdf
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i2ds9lss072a7glrjjoju2fdpv/79658827529.pdf
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/86637179585.pdf
    • https://blueparadise.pl/userfiles/file/51711613476.pdf
    • https://sananselmo.com/wysiwygfiles/file/83680616928.pdf
    • http://fohow77.ru/upload/file/lupekumisewuzanosalusitul.pdf
    • http://fsnmmaterials.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/2463154068.pdf
    • http://daglichtfilters.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nixarigop.pdf
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-22/20210922231519659453.pdf
    • http://indianspringhomes.net/userfiles/files/87224061674.pdf
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d97577d806b7a094e39142164ffacec/vebisepuxevafisi.pdf
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2640c3e2ddff8e472756eaa7d6ea75b/50787683083.pdf
    • http://vuatoyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jizosu.pdf
    • http://anduong-nhatthanh.com/uploads/news_file/81354087651.pdf
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents/files/lugirotixozika.pdf
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e3421bdf42---bomavivofit.pdf
    • https://hilanguage-com-tw.triangle-design.com/files/14123718700.pdf
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57643524514.pdf
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210901220216152.pdf
    • https://thebillionbottom.com/business_school/uploads/file/fugug.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b410.bin
8f3a101db0c8067f1213801c1aa6820b50deb17fb05f6ec777a3fd13491cd4b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB410 18336 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2d0.bin
1d536862f332c7cd1486d058c2e5cf92eff4665bad198a856895a505f87c4e03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D0 10744 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbdd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBDD 16792 bytes