Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 742a8c0671dbb7e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:58:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1c4c770eb83ff25be0331d1966773678 SHA-1: 88adba240116e46d085b26e35fc7cd0dc807a3c7 SHA-256: 742a8c0671dbb7e5de1c04f8e649bc3cd683a6ec3d978beab00d67519ffd083d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=neonatal+jaundice+definition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://weforyou.it/userfiles/files/larinuwivojivitikolup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incomsistema.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xebedodado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etkindenetim.com/resimler/files/97410300747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b914e7e09a---zitimajafijitiwofefig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/291sus2b2gsnel7navfgpa8fe4/rerifiwobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee2823f517---sobudijosapezutunisetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebrownsfamilyreunion2008.com/clients/81208/File/99784806529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607802d850ac9---tarobedumemogapuxoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peter-crooks.com/userfiles/file/gasesorumazuruzetiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/69077185110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/jiloji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aventura-agence.lu/userfiles/files/41735134226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio5r.com/userfiles/files/gipepexawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/16483526046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havanic.com/cache/fck_files/file/26957529036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l60vbji9f9s14s6dvd95tm9fo1/14979880542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01d23951c93addf759200344c3ec0fe9/bagezebepozesuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adidravidar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rezokejoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/54890755381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/xibekadivub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/86471022748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcrlqp46cb5e92e088siubuv4g/52088028364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b86c7717c11d7f5bd50f201e1d026ca/16681453237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7b0a6363d4---52075028312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nceed.kr/pds/userfiles/files/rafejijirimidemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e25b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE25B 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 37e19d5e631845f69c1a676a44fcc04cea20ce9ebcfb59cc76232b417f537632
font_01_sfnt_off00010f49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F49 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 9affef7105746ed4cd0b382c3e3294fdb29f2167c438263e2ba4895aefd366b9
font_02_sfnt_off00012762.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12762 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1