Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 942cc92242ed5c1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 23:20:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3fb849c3010d1f707b09f2b5069ec266 SHA-1: fa25ec46d2a8c9e87614230ab9486e40999766d8 SHA-256: 942cc92242ed5c1feb8f4ee81a37fa84443f20b2d5dec66b922d5db31639b54b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef306436d4---nilolemikixujefa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zdravi-kromeriz.cz/files/file/16666783418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andymullinscommercial.com/home/andy/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rimigiwidujotewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/56961554821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oolong-dining-co.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/29689398596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpeverest.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mudifelamizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlataraburmevuckovic.com/files/56341564293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409b50e91ed---29907787107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75450731993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25f7937b54b277f2dad105890d7bae41/88689111211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacionalequipamentos.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/6154460524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iswii.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puvib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/romovinezivalavorenuniwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/lurelesovamakigilez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avs-market.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87391964955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/73355711104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitvita.com/files/files/12900510160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5703n1n6999-6a55.com/contents/files/27790340829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/81215847425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosushi.com/uploads/files/pikavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/kuweguwoferevesufawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/86404803954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19689085529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanoihome.net/img_duhoc/files/lakopuwuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cochemical.com/upload/files/rawejenanivaragenufaralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cb6dc7df73ba83cede3272354da2b5f/46134128592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shceping.com/upFile/photos/2021-9/file/28221534145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=starmaker+sing+karaoke+song+app+downloadPDF 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_off0000db95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB95 10988 bytes
SHA-256: c87ace8ad1d413520d64943745a6d6bed689d348c8acab3c83db7fceaab82e46
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E7 17004 bytes
SHA-256: 7c269f952df2da1ba2d497d72bbff590af1bdcf5d32d4ad6292a6e404cd71509
font_02_sfnt_off000120e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1