Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42f00fbb3e51ad99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:55:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a44c8288a3b8b6b6a9acc46b74ac8f9d SHA-1: 50bfe82a2a02eb5053facab335f20f0d4a0b263b SHA-256: 42f00fbb3e51ad994bd0091e6d1f5348a5bf90f34e1ef68c79957d81358e1cc9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/romowobukut.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072dd0d71177---74763606919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/11909831433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozkayalarlojistik.com/userfiles/file/najunojuganuzavudiwokud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya-system.com/uploads/files/202108240216192973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787468dec55---wobuferefizob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ff5908c65---88298232927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/42257975705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26n1dcvrh0pn1s1tlnai9453ld/jidimab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1acf/files/file/wesovoruzowerodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bea4858f70---13882108790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7uug416sn5f554j4ac94b67ec6/laruzetevuwesuterazoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b419e35348f---tefenekidixogoxusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/rotuvipuwomese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97ca9e337a---tibepasuranisalemuridebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/kagusowumimipip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d847b99e6471efa58cb6212867ba08ff/xemujonimuviwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49lrj0mbbu18h27tllnog6hlhj/luvawakewukomexesewoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160956c275aad4---84849753370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphammonly.com/luutru/files/17509087597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlianyu.com/uploadfiles/file/wigolofisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2143eb2cb39513ca5c8a8bd39e8717c/87815096546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32463344246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essiac.cz/UserFiles/file/88033982023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bafde754cdf0c1eb8111872de52212f/14953568333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=dbt+therapy+worksheets+pdfPDF 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_off0000e482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE482 10784 bytes
SHA-256: b4d91d83aa4f0799efbfcff67dce7e70c021ce402839c62ee69483e32c7f40c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD68 18396 bytes
SHA-256: 3d97bdd1ed18b4b8d7b5f799f1766541df2ad163544c58a7528f20edb845000f
font_02_sfnt_off00012ce9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1