Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c42596fbdf365041…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:37:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 07fd3121bab51c313b86740b05227c86 SHA-1: a2b671103d6f307195627b169a48c14b6bc7d16f SHA-256: c42596fbdf36504118458c3716ed263af4627fde0cfb0d23beb189a794be196f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=eastern+orthodox+prayer+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608417dbec48c---65801406748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/tuvosowujesatubinox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/56835468326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762a53c00ae---82794455480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/575bac4b16f0c791adadb0f19cf428bd/favavenulabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/31236695140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///rajazuduxunedirokosutulix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/ragujakosodogijeruzisatif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161267032c2427---94475120961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50b300e1095e2c007a97ca83c82efb96/viberapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c01ee7ca96561d580e91453ed8c3b22/10436180540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608150b8846c1---lusubikibefuroneda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adae4649935---44553475075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oakgroveschoolheritage.com/clients/b/bc/bc5c94904a1f00f1300372e6f875146f/File/34943223256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8496a907e0---60189050451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///27932060392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5mal4.de/moneyvidya/web/images/userfiles/file/84533815779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mmalappeenranta.com/tiedostot/files/77021443394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/gesadiretibenazesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ad95495a8ee4248f028e52c1798c959/dezovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/4033112930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13031675340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otelm4b.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/texum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/tisolizokaxajagusureko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f83a745cc---74880560146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tchid.net/userfiles/file/jejiwobir.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_off0000e7fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FE 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 19f9c504686fac6d4251be43a80e0ece5fd2d66e1e751d556dad0f1ae748f167
font_01_sfnt_off000100ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100EE 17828 bytes
SHA-256: 4138b7bc7815a34c9ce084e170e39f29dd605b7297fcc38f4985c968010ae119
font_02_sfnt_off00012f8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1