Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 842ba0357c169638…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:52:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2807ab57ca825e80fd0d58bc4d6dd061 SHA-1: a6b33746c553be2e99905c3a89b41252c9e0d5d9 SHA-256: 842ba0357c16963871d2b2fb8f7bab845c703794bc43a0f0457464338fbe62d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised WordPress installations or hosted on disposable domains. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6743c558774e3d5582a38758867f42aa/mejewisafop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/622c245df19c37f5fa436338859f233c/besotowimuzuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/9825641148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc69ca5b43---97575343027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/kufifezokanemogivafibile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b08ea79d3---16732927418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/morpco34de0l9tpeq4iaomcng5/15051070339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toitureetfacade.fr/data/Files/matufoveranamaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magyar-logyogyasz.hu/fileok/file/ruvoforovizejabinome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9749ca753---69830081879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berrybucs1973.com/clients/3/3a/3a2d6910be1067feaf6dc79f90d505e0/File/gidokelolanelitagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bauarch.bg/files/17812448029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161209539c65b6---76245570206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722afa9e2a9---saxobituwiwisuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datacomsystems.cz/userfiles/file/52121617455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiaato.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210822_8AE825C21177886C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/vupal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/xumuzonibopoxajegasaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210718180758682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyadvisersaustralia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37a972a3e28dfe290daff399b511be0c/bagopepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34d25ef88a---81196018725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toliveinchristjesus.ceosale.catholic.edu.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/negemadomobalibogexitanod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xogegulusujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c5090107ffbcecf79e88edfc635ea36/82557708557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=start+up+nation+dan+senor+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_off0000eb55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010367.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10367 20332 bytes
SHA-256: 7f9a8405ace74e45afa0ad3c78fcd9454965aded1a2f78b830b16d6c10673e05
font_02_sfnt_off00013808.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13808 10620 bytes
SHA-256: e477767fa1bf73f01e2405600a27cee2f2db911226df69b6b00d5e200960e8d5