Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a742ef47bafbfcd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-08-09 02:44:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 19d7ee7237c9366b48109e2dcde9d06b SHA-1: 3c0cc011b504a956e3eb23b3d87beac0ffc2cfb9 SHA-256: a742ef47bafbfcd44083d17eddd2d64fb76b12f0a84bf863383d2198408e3a51
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to exploit users via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=biology+book+for+class+9+sindh+text+board+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b935fc70f49---80259579904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6fb20ed227---milejoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4696cb3f738580931d1b16f3c2020f9/mipokodapimamekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/voxuduwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080999b8df3e---losorub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d93e15dcd27---24368767400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f664a4dc4e---49051150824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itacademyindia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sulujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bethtikvahevents.ca/clients/2/20/20a91c0cb94b02964b0d1c5d980f1596/File/jesupaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93287772505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valstybestarnyba.com/upckfinder/files/xenejewowuvilote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rambud.pl/uploaded/file/porurekalome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/clhphs3bv7f80kpa6ltgkls8jr/tulesipufibifur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqfcv3dkg55s7i9gc7ee92rb7t/51913202193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trotusgrup.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/varejos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pb-book.com/user_file/file/57529247274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pension-chevaux-haras-gabereau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13570109057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503072508503631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/40069253856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/tupovewemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legouic-peinture.fr/userfiles/file/38086435428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/kosonotenifitetog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/gavilajupamegizebozidof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bebd3f6484a8c5a1ffab2f36d7a4a859/badinurigebikuwiximuvifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/10482072879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ae5e70b8207aa10e8caa548c33f4e54/91725449465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10114 11568 bytes
SHA-256: a2b39c83715efa5e22c600c2c2616edf6d2531eedd779b9851d47dd3ad5e108d
font_01_sfnt_off00011c27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C27 16620 bytes
SHA-256: f9aff2a6b9df0a00b08301efe59e77ad3cd113b485c9cb5e1d3da07057da8e0f
font_02_sfnt_off0001469f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1469F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1