Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 842cf950a138c9c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-24 12:11:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 23a1f22d2bb08c3a12956ca49afccb8c SHA-1: d4d78a1a59500e64c9e3aec58c951d9f8b706746 SHA-256: 842cf950a138c9c2cd426ce287fb7e99562a2eb76cf4a68d9e249e8b42a42f89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves luring users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://praguynakorn.com/praguynakorn/picture/datapro/files/rakosigajavoninemin.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vipdiler.ru/files/file/maniwumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panda-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/58615737176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://predial-rua-nova.pt/056-CovadaLua/images-editor/file/temonebibalowekokero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatfieldfarms101.com/userimages/72274683360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e80a3f6fadc5b60c31ebca561727659f/24995176571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandweeramsterdamamstellanden.nl/userfiles/file/pafibafiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210916223425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enilubricant.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/78218969224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnox.vn/upload/files/ribulemebetimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.profiemg.cz/upload/ck/files/tinezuxagemolelabediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koutingchina.com/upload/files/64039530532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hud101.vn/webroot/img/posts/files/vovikipawugirobapoboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc8vmcu0k8mqgdqmiiomi3cij5/pikasagixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maurinet.com/userfiles/file/denexuwosig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/32412752533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/91671623449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dj-maily.com/uploads/pages/files/zuwegutaxibor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c966dbf98e---28136813040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pavimentosyreformasferlu.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91271724079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammermoor.net/imagenes/file/43269787644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa3753e111cdf8f494c8214e99c88fd0/bizigikarizefesop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/lurux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/tajogurowokifefewilari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hocikto.info/userfiles/file/wubewavinub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=rog+game+center+apkPDF 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_off0000eb78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB78 18284 bytes
SHA-256: 9d67d3e7b96a4890cec46e8374780cca18523d53b641c2c2e069752fd03dda6c
font_01_sfnt_off00011aec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013303.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13303 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 9e49bac6467dbc847b1e336f4ccfe5c7c4746df806020cf3e14002297d6aed34