Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42e78fae17b854ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 14:28:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e9d26b62f08935bd2776167a10b28320 SHA-1: b9b1b4b02823d0edc1c19d2a3621ed758bf34055 SHA-256: 42e78fae17b854ca9dcbadca6763cd5756c5616d309ae742f3c3f776412b58a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a phishing or redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://benevolo.it/userfiles/files/37876721072.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e2005b7299---46181778074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shanghaicruiseparty.com/uploads/file/bodese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/35260899882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/mukikizaxiwanadisilatuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dkm173ds9kn2sbct7q7rjmgrr2/xomowotamojuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/kepasok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xpress2.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55318783078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhnienxp.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/21372116499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huijingweb.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903125112211908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.terresdescaraibes.fr/file/sapaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137aed1735f2---95688194516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grubstreet.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79083524791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highdeal.linkeo.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55206301846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrecchina.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21732174797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriagasthiyarastro.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/6045026325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakakmanis.com/contents/files/duxiloxadozonanabuvelapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/75559704035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vongtaytramhuong.vn/upload/files/47906970758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eec23cf3ff---99723121227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isotope3.pm-ural.com/uploads/files/maraguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eagle-aviation.com/userfiles/files/65756812706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/tulegagezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxforce.nl/userfiles/files/10311515573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+full+service+game+in+androidPDF 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_off0000b6ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6EF 11064 bytes
SHA-256: b0d208fba6912c23625b5012d737bddcb1c1543c3176c253a4611c4568b75b72
font_01_sfnt_off0000d082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD082 15120 bytes
SHA-256: 319b9196552885b7d694b78110ca2cd675046be6aa95e2350403588fadc5eab5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f699.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF699 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1