Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42e5450006516bea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:25:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: caf03a9635b964705b53c2a720e705cf SHA-1: ccf061b0f5d11aa89a580075f8d0325c7c3c366e SHA-256: 42e5450006516beaede61c7f4f754c8c1a54c598c7b548d73eb7fce45fb3624b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly show a link farm pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc68b802b4---japirutesulotexizukoboj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/26854889614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25322516731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsy.cz/images/file/files/20364363956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-olomouc.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gerogesudidebanuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geobigoni.it/userfiles/files/xexuwokujitiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindatpeace.us/uploads/files/derepiwenule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creaorganization.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/babixukidutazowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609733368c10c---80198192756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kencert.vn/uploads/image/files/26253386107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd779c6863---74131465584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charming-dc.com/uploads//files/202108092245509910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7a965be079---zixefubasaxipuxisasituma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30739185496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gea99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89227547287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/23465584941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e34022075e51b2c2ad9a988378dccbb/76017580928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb249ada48---tosuxapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be4a441d6950197e5bb964728ab5a52d/xurosomek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mabf343u8np962nmslhgc9rij8/86601251412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fedaa25ca6---78818687672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/95762562435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa950c5793---85391088981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=new+language+leader+upper+intermediate+tests+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_off0000b1c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D9 15464 bytes
SHA-256: 208712224b253a6574c409d23cd53566340fe9f5f2e08fcd2e12b6229cb82da2
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B1 10884 bytes
SHA-256: d971cc4cf7eabc8c1c95029a827a3be8bd34e5514410378f2dca2b5b65addd36