Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a42426855a2ac47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:54:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6ee40c75c65be373720cd1b9a468e4d5 SHA-1: db7d559b81c994478a726598dd4aaa488409b63f SHA-256: 7a42426855a2ac47b7dd86f9585778b764470fed22a30b361e5f1cedbb05c45b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a broad campaign to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1b81efb05---jebuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/66636368882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://craftsmancuttingdies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf0bc1e35a8ffb1009909ef2b7e97a00/8408037178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jubileejec.com/userfiles/files/favijegosulikitaxuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/35749882812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sung1.com/upload/files/sifoketagonuxiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27f6a384deafb6dc3cabf447b81efb2b/tabujadubafepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/neporesafajupajokizox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bephoangdung.vn/uploads/ckfinder/files/keparesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/zudomejupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7076def1c4---mobaranumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoorichi.com/temp/fckeditor/file/61125679385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1622655099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8ee83292e3---44633292410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magazinul-de-instalatii-sanitare.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xekoterip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayamalay.com/clients/874202/File/morewevaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8sehfvhsq5al6hdch66l611vk6/wabofatabasunozenobanajum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210702_8650615562EFA397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdjshg.com/files/file/51002047427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fca047dd0---17135288259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebsulmare.com/userfiles/files/pobena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/duganexunafezapafixore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/jupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bc6fc7a97c18b0b8f476b0fdc03d270/6144176578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6db0156f2---21533364618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/croqpcg9vus8dtd1s8sic8dgbs/bowukudegeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b116b28fa---30532023907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=jazz+dance+history+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000e47d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE47D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC94 10764 bytes
SHA-256: c68f9dcdbbd9760800b92e929e777cb76bdbba0775218ad0d1957c5494cade2a
font_02_sfnt_off00011573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11573 17260 bytes
SHA-256: adcad6b60d2463ba65d61b2b363ae756caa56d52c9bbeee1af7319fe0a9ee5ed