Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42ebc902f4267a28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-10-03 07:57:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 002de65230867c7115b815a28c15a7ec SHA-1: a3b39dc8d0c79aeb993ccf05f5a48e70708af655 SHA-256: 42ebc902f4267a28533f34af6ea9ba6fbd8fd4e32656daaae2ec017d31ff49eb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF_IMAGE_LURE heuristic indicates it likely presents a screenshot to trick users into clicking these links, which is a common phishing tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/2141888860.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dgssu.com/upfolder/e/files/20210916074824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsmpublicschool.org/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/44592555544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetportonaccio.it/userfiles/files/74480985797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/35166601660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa6aachkjln0qra.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/girafuritezakodizunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshow.com/upload/ckfinder/files/nitelozitozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rovitek.com/userfiles/file/35053962052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prtourusa.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210927_468C487BC21FEE33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psk.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96968015849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614003da81037---84003404451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/46574724100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b9abb9273---kitizumuteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/76817687930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/73953956229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8470396e09c385b79805e916bf2e5ac/57202105179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handmade.sdelaemlegko.ru/files/userfiles/files/gusexelipidenox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yushendesign.com/images_fck/file/1632682507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.phapluatvietnam.com/upload/ckupload/files/10239861321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/74198981492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/vopanumame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://back2wood.de/userfiles/file/79075689525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+save+pdf+with+linksPDF 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_off0000b07f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB07F 14076 bytes
SHA-256: 1c0c13dd9b1a5babef54636d64936549c4d72412e6f2410bed27c2958419a280
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B6 10732 bytes
SHA-256: ffbd21a5d7c13d8f559f9813e6ddabf928067d8a7605670d523ad7c1d16fbd60
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1