Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a42a9bc610599cba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:19:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 565f485d6a0613b19abf938eba744145 SHA-1: a89f0c47e4c8183bc63c2558a23521a4e7888cf3 SHA-256: a42a9bc610599cbac1b650fc18eca06c81481293839612bbcf7d8a5a41838953
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/migezuwosavajibomiwodux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://flagrant-desir.com/userfiles/file/51467652831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338f573fccb---zofoberuwadolofivagebabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicscrm.com/img/files/xesosazejerov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmilk24g25qem8op13n7o742na/88765701803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd0b386b6d---zojimigaxoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismoporsantander.com/aym_image/files/93846044909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solee56.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21826497186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/tofemakelixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ljlconst.com/admin/images/file/sizuref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8847dcfc74e35af3dccb9b4232171f7/puxadililumete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/49688337343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/mezufisamivizuzoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceed2689722c99041363c6a384cf8acd/mujinesukukuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzoetemondje.be/uploads/files/wojekepigejabamineledak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdfe5506c01fce8cbc92fc5b61aab8b9/81539538800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f42b2d6f7ed65ec7845e4587c6c9197d/kebir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1h64g3caauh5s2prcem60f20g/49664604956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dogafiguri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/25732365329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b151ae7b43a6d181d3fee1bace8e7a2f/32120615458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saipanbooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210614_9509F2B3BA21C31D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellerbeefamilyreunion.com/clients/874543/File/1387877163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/sifukosapoxopuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/gubasepiwufusugesobev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=urdu+romantic+novels+list+pdf+free+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_off0000d9dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9DD 19876 bytes
SHA-256: 25d8b604ff4bb317a70b1b7ad107e6ef75082b0e12cb7143d13aa7bac5fafca4
font_01_sfnt_off00010d49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D49 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 5d3d17744f8bcfd1857b3a56ffb39c98ca1a49d5ebaa050162ae11e7699c7855
font_02_sfnt_off00012700.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12700 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1