Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42ecd883c4ab1e15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.3 KB Created: 2021-07-28 05:09:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fe9fadaab95cf84e713ea39f9defab8f SHA-1: 68abda1cd1b795fc2b1eb3672685ce0a632e1aa5 SHA-256: 42ecd883c4ab1e15855bb390734ef299fba9cad08aa0d6a6a7aeb52fff280485
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic strongly indicate maliciousness, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's structure suggests it's designed to lure users into clicking these links, potentially leading to a malicious download or exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9551

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://reunionclass.com/clients/7469/File/zajasukisabevid.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784e74c3f28---zetabesetofamorir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elyriahigh1974.org/clients/0/05/052ab20d644b737728595af1a47b4450/File/84114553203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609acd1e11988---juwupujel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/9938764830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7199040433---61345368107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayer.cn/d/files/54179974489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muachungbaohiem.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tugugowesosopapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p2p68nkttkjq1bn14g7bmcu95l/49555521272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857379e502e---salakakumulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/mewos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/jujuvuxofesebubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgroup.at/tmp/besit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/92119853494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd375bc810d---25401692345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatphathuy.com/Images_upload/files/29128459878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c67b6daeeb---duzugerewexez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff4c4d83507954b1ddfd579ae7df8733/66365912077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/givp1eddn7h4hc0e6cjofitded/bedibufimob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwsalisbury.com/uploads/files/50420352282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uors69qisq76vkk4iveiff4tdd/37002244615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doucetplasticsurgery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37834996140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73381573186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xnkvinatimex.com/uploads/files/76711126227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ughjl294seh2jofb7lorfiqs6m/63035509590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=does+hiro+and+zero+two+die+in+the+endPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001119a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1119A 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 854f8e217464e68c368e01bb9edbdc032f2b2666d6d2f43cb1d3017634455ffe
font_01_sfnt_off00012957.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12957 20312 bytes
SHA-256: 9752d8f6411289dc6ba152e5324049c87d1eae2940d329d6ec3d6fd0f4055686
font_02_sfnt_off00015eab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EAB 3680 bytes
SHA-256: de9d5d9d0b4f3c8c99d4564eb6b87e4796a6b012dbbb0bd7518adcfd8128e235
font_03_sfnt_off00016d66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16D66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1