Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 942be2b877a4841e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-24 02:20:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 006f67d87316d2a3936b1e338a76807d SHA-1: 3ea38e6be4c6978f78d79eee073ca5b28e556bea SHA-256: 942be2b877a4841e448291dc17a9d20a5b6f84c78a33fcdbc142728ea5f77adb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using such PDFs to host a large number of links, likely to direct users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=d%26d+5e+books+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://net-mex.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waladiporen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efaab48e5edfa266c940417c4073e94f/4454914233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinxinhouseware.com/uploadfile/files/zajevikun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sophrologue-nimes.fr/upload/news/files/6271280364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianrockies.ca/files/file/fonotowelegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a22237e8eb5d5a0e23eb393808d852af/87184836809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caogenzhiben.com/filespath/files/20210907092935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/99516049612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoka-saarlouis.de/userfiles/file/gesuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/21551465783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/24577277631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terracell.info/images/file/nizexelozivagolofopijuvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161442979d9a51---niranewosux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukinserv.hu/file/7100664879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauti-full.ru/uploads/files/31581610417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowassenindex.nl/images/uploads/kijikugobapugitubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613756f934c75---piduti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/xugisakemurulazulepufafot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanoonkaraj.ir/dbmanager/filebank/htmlgallery/file///jezoforowonejinadapeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-rubber.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/sopelawojosolemitomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/8548872763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/salalukixegebezibanegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1careglobal.com/upload/files/4393823699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/28789822359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gplacestracker.com/userfiles/file/nenolenukazakuveno.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_off0000e086.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE086 22320 bytes
SHA-256: d115fc143ffe392c3367ec5472a3ae0d3b7b40a86044daf1b9c1593a395d9539
font_01_sfnt_off000118ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118EA 9076 bytes
SHA-256: f695977626623e59fedb2fbedebd468d0acf89ff6f6ceafeb3cee4351ddee6c8
font_02_sfnt_off00012b8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B8F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1