PDF malware analysis — malicious · a42cda3268320b30

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 04:17:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26

MD5: 0ff09a691d81f74da0047af56758522e SHA-1: a76934797eb57862cfb59e2e1785ee7c2b41e986 SHA-256: a42cda3268320b301cdc3c2ffdbad6a2a0d3957aa6031b46e118d04f6eef6089

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is a PDF that contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. The presence of link farms and compromised hosting suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results.

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 https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/xazevirudowinugumawa.pdf In PDF document text
- https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/25552390772.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://rhuyscampingcar.fr/images/files/rulovibivoxaluvisifo.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://gediklimakinahidrolik.com/resimler/files/xozafopekowo.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021091001353056.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/dowufuvaguzef.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613686e2b8d72---jiwamu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://0286869143.com/editor_images/files/76710115232.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318f47114f2---23261616762.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202109060546481910.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://dcimx.com/files/bopubaresexapafetaluki.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://jowinbio.com/upload/files/202109021447533651.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/84105228273.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60810234697.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://institut-arabe.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zutejogefidesokuwaga.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://alley.52886.tw/uploads/files/xumebuverukeb.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5a56e586a5997b93e9938c6dfea5256/bazurozedugoliru.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://anabakorea.jp/userfiles/file/somabixorig.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/gisari.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/67379046426.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a3091bae45a6773254b64f3de709f5f/24335540307.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://kamkmori.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bufivumawogijo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/32188001621.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://ruta.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59657247289.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=speed+trap+app+androidPDF 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000e977.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE977	18056 bytes
SHA-256: `010ab80c89b9d2f81fb225132c79c52ac118ba9b4ffcc9fa460822b1dbca5173`
`font_01_sfnt_off00011857.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11857	10248 bytes
SHA-256: `1d531ba16ac7ae989bee9e56c803a6e07a970e3c237ba1cb68fc0f01efdca1e8`
`font_02_sfnt_off00012f75.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F75	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`

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