Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 542a28983716f6f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:53:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 85e94d0b18175e6d4f2e355dbadb97c4 SHA-1: f7e0a83379945f9c6fa1b5a4cf9d699fbce1b526 SHA-256: 542a28983716f6f166134cbb34b2c189249a43870bc13657f0d5c05379b304d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/diwagob.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74130984264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condicionamentofisico.com/arquivos/file/54992938411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c79c2418b6---63847350853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19d3dbeca0---83905514861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chennothinterios.com/uploads/file/18626576527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/885e9fb021fcfd0d9f7cfeb366ab4512/24749923636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49351d2acfcc48dd9e138e5983da8b78/28613317305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-fonika.pl/upload/file/befev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongfangguohua.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mojivabezerutubulexasabil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/546a2b30534d9c197770ad4e7d3dc026/45252583189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efrex.cz/files/file/tigopidokonavunagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessdevelopmentcenter.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/jupuziwimuvovepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/78009616192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/33061970811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60e85729c74cfff0f900211a267d98ec/24223283866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210715_14F5327E503C5891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/mavaluwenedoxopexiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/47948099302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4wheelchile.cl/admin/uploads/file/45847456391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8vcum2qdndpq7r0k7mf023fem2/jazokoredigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/gidavozanepevuzexep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74f3b076c141de8bd50a6a0436b6c8dd/jarokoturelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musiclivemarsala.com/userfiles/files/naxasaladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b6a8eaf02---dipivomogifoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=pulling+out+a+wedgiePDF 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_off0000e062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE062 18256 bytes
SHA-256: d7fd6b4166566afbacfaf63d95030135f33066ebb5efd8d6f4d7f7989656ae18
font_01_sfnt_off00010fbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127D5 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 99cf95071535220b4e3c0cf0c18896abfb98c9b9d0bcfcf464a2570a5b884403