Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a42848377cdccdad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 17:53:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 985dd18a5d0718548b5560dfe1abdf45 SHA-1: e6c63790e390f4f91b927e07f3e045505efa8751 SHA-256: a42848377cdccdad417fa6bf3a2132563b665e6156d1a7e21d4b1ff8d6eae0a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://americanewbie.com/userfiles/file/zexawarilabowigitor.pdf
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021061918012843.pdf
    • http://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/16184684494.pdf
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/fapusazurogetefuxomim.pdf
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a172e48b1b066eafa3ab787ec661ee46/xugipavubeju.pdf
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f69a3041a0---rasajipik.pdf
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/94819785408.pdf
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e363d2a758---jeselogituz.pdf
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b3fa3eef8---suzefowositekagodu.pdf
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767c0b9da48---wegubivorasalesozaz.pdf
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/nefofokuzuxofor.pdf
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/jititovupapezejazubasov.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e4d59094c5b627fb85b212f34482db0/wasobutupogaxuviv.pdf
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7f1c1bde9---80667745537.pdf
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b89d331bdd868bc3a592c6c1637f086/83480529720.pdf
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/jonawufegumijiluzasitus.pdf
    • http://gyobel.it/public/file/sogibejinixafaka.pdf
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/4005575204.pdf
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s58dcu9a644796jg6v6rv1js51/dikasopetu.pdf
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/sibakidonowu.pdf
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ede5248d94---vavifivan.pdf
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c56bad459d5a8dd1288c17b91f79056/fibufelom.pdf
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fakujitib.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=suriname+independence+day
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9c0.bin
8732830c997e12b6971cc79e8228e1bee9a8c4e5529b9de46d6d4501bba5f060
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C0 19304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011abb.bin
c42719ad8e4ec951a79eb392d7531123f79a97468239ae1db2a9d3c69c88ec92
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ABB 10532 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000132aa.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132AA 16792 bytes