Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f42d2c29e2ba589…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-06-21 17:57:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ef1b6fdee40ecb33023b438addaabc47 SHA-1: 925289ddf69510bd0b1ebef68f021cade6350fda SHA-256: 8f42d2c29e2ba589bd155437d25c1b9706105571983460a2c2590970fe6904d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilgp7sqfa3s5err9nj2nrs9qj2/38418976851.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba5b01a46ca628ef33f19f61c662c79b/metezemomutovumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f79951033---menefutimoluxoxovenasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6b54337bd3---34298949991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/jujerubidudimekodeseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propactionvehiclesuk.tv/userfiles/files/99658516670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowprice.com/content/xuploadimages/file/wirukixozanaponusagaven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9440473b5---76724362077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/27407405137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d9372f4f62823d14f4bf0652e9194b5/tuwaveda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/17425489937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/faxebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fec2d3ef9e---pifuwenawas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c225ee65ffee0ab2621a5e1ad4da56c4/18662589865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47cd32f54a3c6b80b270f89099380e75/80047255496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=chain+rule+worksheet+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000d344.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD344 5188 bytes
SHA-256: 707868d42c60f5033fd0d7829c2152544c4d931e2de77760d249c0bb821e8c3b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F1 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 2eb0131b127f3ee8bfde11a9d4f0f022657ee0f828f78cd3ad60953b568c28f9
font_02_sfnt_off00010bcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCF 16096 bytes
SHA-256: 292b67320f20e7e38814323bff47001ccb55b5eebb397aea8a254f3e91f57b87