Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d42424426d20cbae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 07:18:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f332c527655ef9ed478bdf9034c92af7 SHA-1: d6d1817280a55112130970f3e453b6cd3f24c787 SHA-256: d42424426d20cbaed68474db97f362fb64e48bb9cfef303211a7fae6dc9b3bc8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs and link farm structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+bridge+to+terabithia+online+free+123movies PDF link annotation
    • http://vizcsap.hu/files/file/86758497996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minjar.mebel18.com/uploads/files/fikefipabov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jujofizivenabiwisot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divanich96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xijid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/15267425308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uzmansporzeminkaplama.com/resimler/files/40555525147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naosgym.com/userfiles/files/lasakagezodolanegabeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c4ccbd90d7---34452125608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niboparis.com/upload/fckeditor/files/wesunetelamajuduru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besttailor.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47993108201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konakelektrik.com/userfiles/file/41173816520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hlqh.net/userfiles/file/20210909212218_2072661437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/20745077396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaodantanthaison.com/Images_upload/files/zoxinusijixufadipud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/fafiguwaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phr4u.com/files/95291609165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://distant-property.ru/fck_editor_files/files/kiguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abaj.cz/UserFiles/File/dowoxujade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epicridesnepal.com/files/juvusalinuzukelubemupase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petribax.com/userfiles/file/33309037942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f15c2382a---27639314687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runbo.net/upfiles/files/16305722866184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/66718454136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rklatex.com/userfiles/file/64055622823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianrockies.ca/files/file/dutilate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a970d43aff---vufel.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_off0000cdcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDCC 11464 bytes
SHA-256: 0cd06978e205bcb3af6d75d168419bf6d53017b9ff269f58a7d7ce6b0faaaeda
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AB 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 0373d07448d09da10057187c0a2c5ddacfbf42ad38075444c2d194a6883399d8
font_02_sfnt_off00011776.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11776 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1