Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42e6d8e5859a4f7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:49:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: be7596d7c237c9b4fcc3f077af799218 SHA-1: 1378a6fcbfc58dd19edb30830da2b9bfb8700413 SHA-256: 42e6d8e5859a4f7b47cbdc678e803f5660106dbaa3ce5d2ab9a844a780402e19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious content, rather than containing an active exploit within the PDF itself.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ceb8a7b26a9bd4aff59d333f8a0ca4d/18646341039.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abwferrellpkwy.com/uploads/files/kegikol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ba0ff3f0e---tomukisirox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/17860462467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/209f503caf55cbb3c797c1333641afcc/solivamikaxaviwunebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/51993094284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6b949d9d8---vaxametifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modernplating.com/userfiles/file/37093267761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briztravel.com/upload/files/kopewotefozes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/716aa95406a7162880924531f4d7d132/58404734371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/xawujotagikezamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb8114c7eb08def3deed639875129623/58116198381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avvocatoboretti.it/file/78285083003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ispartaprefabrik.com/ckfinder/upload/files/12049464666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaht.com/userfiles/file/89716712358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pijhe7jvp0ef2a81k5r1gc3nf5/kulawuzowibogavivewate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestorkate.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/ruwotofagelogikidumut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/21613350899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b16d478ec---pidezagifalif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b944a109b43---53296486343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/91973330194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072661daa07f---besuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scsytech.com/upload/files/sidukix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=commas+in+lists+worksheet+year+2PDF 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_off0000d3b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC8 10816 bytes
SHA-256: b5d192dc0f18f3fd2f0668a53e4cd55f2f35d547d186a8c5db681579e07b521c
font_02_sfnt_off000104ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104AB 17572 bytes
SHA-256: 708c673771b24c50ae5cb6f0fefd02f13eb4ef4ed56ba328ed5fd580d31c5391