Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42e5be3ce5d6fd9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-08-24 09:29:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: af460f39f478d49426eeddb2fd56b9db SHA-1: 5f165f1af53aee92bbe914e6ae32ee02bc2f6e91 SHA-256: 42e5be3ce5d6fd9b384821a9f11acf1e186e2171ff565261a1d5823d0e0934af
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. The presence of invoice or payment lure language further supports a phishing or scam-based attack pattern, likely intended to trick users into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e0b99598f---bekukejuvozigazobabodob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee21969738---66917237603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b953c1354---27901991285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16218703591361839708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60c8f45cc2c9c6ea29bcb30a1a61a017/nozilixivixarajimijiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoledesgourmets.com/userfiles/file/wamibekubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/36680960016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saito-ken.jp/userdata/file/16784913355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c97412f5c7---vokasuradu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c596255dda0---degetobatarilumudigave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58746d660c36e745e9b44ee496ff176a/sinug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24819164159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/30227917425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lohsclassof70.com/clients/3/31/31ca850ff086a58b81c8700e10a01852/File/vaxasevetusomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibookingkr.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210706_820871E66E5FB5FE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/munepul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardatrans.com/content/Files/mujugotifaseliwedugora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/kida2018/ck_imgs/files/15828459091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c8723cd47---54691885965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyogytornasziget.hu/uploads/files/55689712120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopron.ru/upload/files/20005094678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ica2g7aojc3e6jdilbsea4qurn/82875948601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/37480986102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/nawubora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/nifunijifufosukuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=uk+number+of+bank+holidaysPDF 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_off0000e350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE350 16900 bytes
SHA-256: 7353d857cfda8ca7f9d876170ea1d2d4b22bfcfd17c0a56d965b68ec3d222046
font_01_sfnt_off00010f9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9A 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 10e6ab7470990c0b96c4b98edb98b7777be87ae2192441777129bd396a1a6801
font_02_sfnt_off000128d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1