Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c42fe7521b25eb4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-08-26 13:50:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8ff98c280c43260d2a4aa70b056b93ea SHA-1: 2ad68230cab397aaa6cb8b2f4e7fdacf92305d6b SHA-256: c42fe7521b25eb4d350db929d884147fecd5fa1e5f7c22c97bc82a0a2603fa9b
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically employing a password-protected archive tactic to conceal malicious content. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting further supports this assessment. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest an attempt to trick the user into downloading and decrypting a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1621962322.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://interreg-ipa-husrb.com/downloads/begurugonelijakumukiwotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161082720195cb---39524219701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdvvietnam.vn/webroot/img/files/sukujix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077acd2e8ae3---pewelusivelidagerejafasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7e80ffd36ba18b4ec17012651fe35c3/93619397021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0npfop3t6q3np66pjv28jrgasj/kezovanejederuxurifet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a53903e5ce57173472617dc0eb0e1ed/67545322258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a314bde9e00e1187b67d6f4bfbd01230/sikigunivipemupotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/timuredexirad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawodydrwali.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/jigejekelititamiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d7508143269fc0e11aa6dd580fd4ccb/92655902706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/morutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/luxeruru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/29265569778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097443711059---konikukudetokudagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://physocare.com/Images_upload/files/gewolotanuzogezikukoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridgefieldpark1967.com/clients/3/39/39eebdc8797e30ee23d4fd57d071fd44/File/43716661194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m065psm53oom95offoe51dm490/banavaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/763e24d32fb5d2b529e60503af0947d3/82329219814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87a3d319e854f3bd9dae4fccbd4e490d/bibakeditulil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/386dbc960d99687d9248f2f7c9eb68f2/lolekuvivuzewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spitalmoldovanoua.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47747758735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/85109872518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=super+smash+bros+melee+revision+2+1.02+isoPDF 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_off0000fea8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA8 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 6717543c198d804f4fabcaf796dca1c71c574a7831db5b49be33d1fe55974b48
font_01_sfnt_off00011857.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11857 18224 bytes
SHA-256: c9081cd5f0f51c945d50571c671cbf58fc5f9169cc75bd1c46e03d5021423a15
font_02_sfnt_off00014827.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14827 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1