Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a42dafee9eaaec74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 09:09:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f2f3e351399f0b0cdac2171e5de3723a SHA-1: 38a70729944484b3557a8fe6529e8ed304095f8f SHA-256: a42dafee9eaaec74e773ca49225987b5a54653d2cadea76f75e664743b546560
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/12683459468.pdf
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/60929082533.pdf
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/jezonoka.pdf
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/vusoxazagulinesetiju.pdf
    • http://agriturismofattorialucciano.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/werodapumo.pdf
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/61758175772.pdf
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/70726494207.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826e9a8abb9---jajuxipizale.pdf
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/12238048467.pdf
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/xunago.pdf
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/37490709609.pdf
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/50575089504.pdf
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607623488e387---85426206835.pdf
    • http://roomyab.ir/basefile/roomyabir/files/73317208772.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774cba5b73c---netepukuvap.pdf
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bad6746e0d0---munevilawirobutix.pdf
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ljo314ec87lcrff8jfdlk2a13/lebivisigulakepafofado.pdf
    • http://unityproductions.com/upload/files/72448303102.pdf
    • https://tktravelkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210709_25DB7904BD1CEF1C.pdf
    • http://asianaccounting.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/50825593040.pdf
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f01cuucmpu4bs2eoe7nv560kb2/dasigapuxojajepusulusuzi.pdf
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sprn4tpbail2rsp6inf3dli1tb/11142520267.pdf
    • http://rebornfair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210626_11E9236FB0AA5435.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tsnc19mdatcnr9s8ed52ut4701/49991427573.pdf
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0341721884fa5ac4dbad583d3f09af3/41187494291.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+norm+chronicles+pdf
    • 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_off0000cdde.bin
f61ce13c0139d13937a00d080d68cdca0fdb82a7ffbe61bcb90e44a8730df0d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDDE 16724 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f94f.bin
edd335a93b4b305e9010db0a236a621a954ad7b08d59f0371c75eae2e28743eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF94F 10588 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011134.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11134 16792 bytes