Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 742e0d138178dada…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 18:49:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: dae64c7a72f3c3a4222425e605535c87 SHA-1: 5750de0db70d4d1470240a5632cb222f8e454adc SHA-256: 742e0d138178dada4ac1dc4af4f26c6a0880426d1fa25b84fa9a883071930ab1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=installing+windows+phone+7+on+android PDF link annotation
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d824002f766a098f093cdca77cf47982/fusolekexumonelozukiwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95642227025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpjse.news-read.com/upload/files/sezesadiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transchem-tech.com/Uploadfiles/files/paxoxapiweropodenun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395502c7297---buzuxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/nagikanowakugemolevot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://automatisme-portail-bordazzi.fr/userfiles/fichiers/62961165818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirindhorn.net/upload/File/razuzolipovemitoxepib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332c2147c39---fivenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://087334211.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6392709639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northwestconvention.cz/data/files/36414599301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/12476185201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionnakrizankach.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kamigubunilibezamojuzegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurdua.com/contents/files/denilotagupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d64c4e4fb---nepavadinuzugeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/32169867448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613401e09fc6c---bolumunetanowetewuvak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/sumujubevubumejiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardena.crazyrockinsushi.com/uploads/files/xizebezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paulogomeslda.com/userfiles/file/17973439617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91881577833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://52963566.com/upload/file/202109030704061798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virtrade.gr/userfiles_lybo/file/jomipivimovadivogip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aow.infogestnet.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jogozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowik.pl/upload/wusawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkc1.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/7955135897.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_off0000d70e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD70E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF25 10760 bytes
SHA-256: c874ba7f84e3a38a0ea319d7d1285f8a1bbf7e248b5c541cc1388d2f0448c289
font_02_sfnt_off000107af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107AF 17548 bytes
SHA-256: c848c743f0aece465aafd1992dfa82491ea18986097ed887eceafd2bd0d45689