Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 942c48b941f3c3e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:26:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f65cd43d4f0d6c08aabcbb95ea82983f SHA-1: e673d21c3436f305fe08a7d2456b2e0bd3906551 SHA-256: 942c48b941f3c3e77d4048af33317a39737c10518d22f9957c4c685af9e05ce1
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of 'Powershell V1.0' in the document text, alongside ML and ClamAV detections, strongly indicates malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the heuristics suggest the document is designed to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://autopsrus.aerovents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/razolo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44350611187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/sosifupuwakebeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddservice-bmw.pl/userfiles/file/raxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucarrorentacar.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosubitisovotopagisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velapower.com/glwh/UploadFile/file/2021081300491373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1d5c928af8d4ed436d1ed1af944d20a/sujubobelamuxepefura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca3d8d71f6---62574800161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/23065892835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cvreoc6f83738bagm0f9nigj7/63034136431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldaserwis.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/valewipetal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettrungson.com/media//Files/rutorifugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dkmodels.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/visebinobijaxivufakigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://info-jimukyoku.jp/lot/upload/files/tawomivizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopabrang.com/images/files/59442035406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1f2868278---58995562552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/113dcf071ebbfbcb2e825dde0bc4ef07/27931196683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca9f48dc82---98047026141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffed8490b1---75928871969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608011d37f4bd---xunisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomax.shop/filespath/files/20210826101402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c045da02bbc4febc0bc5e3fffe54754/83942770316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b2a57545c---41445223407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69244616891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d90d1615d---titarifawojifijide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=download+app+pdf+pc+windows+10PDF 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_off0000ee8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE8F 19496 bytes
SHA-256: 489e1a60926424ca1008ad41401a406e81a78f3dd7feca57d9d267386cdb5c47
font_01_sfnt_off00012129.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12129 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013940.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13940 10544 bytes
SHA-256: a857a60ff1cd6803c7861f8e8d3387817f0637c719686ba6728127b70080d575