Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42fe2744ca29c9fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:21:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 93447ad97bb94769fcb5e97c659a9f83 SHA-1: 26923e694e4893d77c7cf2651ac69bef039be74e SHA-256: 42fe2744ca29c9fe728504b3e6b06d6a0c624ca9d091682d0d4914fdae8a896b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to websites hosted on compromised or disposable domains, likely intended to lure users into phishing scams or download further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce5499695dbada85a6c74b1b49ea2d62/vumowasisoji.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://movietek.vn/hinh-anh/files/bugokiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3277bb36cd19c1d64d924a59af63818/kozajefav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/madewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbondcorten.com/attachment/file/b772f2dbb43d32eca2f5f4a6258ad9c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/43468417519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5de7aea8a---maveruzejapofegizofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balarampurblock.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82380233422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da909a82c0---18248950017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108b145e4dd7---komerepewijosumizizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/sokezolatelotulumajaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/64536957450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a649cf2f64a5832ff6f4ccd131bb08c9/fevevireporajimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctefd0ua6b8ascnusikfn7kju7/webegufen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdq80rq91nsq95kt3251bmm184/68987194122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/froijkui7brr1obeuqufav6q3g/kinisemutekukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105191512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/10491944639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaosms.org/media/ftp/file/37199880091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/75259984816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/xaromudipopeximama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/userfiles/file/vevotukujixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldcpc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89687574177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vcb90s00dnguqvoneisj7635t1/kiravisutaruxebotuwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/fetorowupenaxorojari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=fases+de+la+auditoria+forense+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_off0000ea24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA24 20220 bytes
SHA-256: 768d0f81b48e2c86b64c423a0527b6632406cccb111e5df55ba0cb58903d6243
font_01_sfnt_off00011d8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D8F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000135a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135A6 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 9ac238d200895e3c0f468726f25b6b8b1ba144d2e31853253c335551a596a336