Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d42ac62a3f909514…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:03:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 09b3a8d80f1f6f493d493da7906f37a5 SHA-1: 351bad87d7c60f09ee6ca4173ce1f9fe8106892b SHA-256: d42ac62a3f909514a537f3ff25c92953fe0f0484f663f7f659d8fd7ae2cae84a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic strongly suggest an attempt to exploit users via external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202106241256529647.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grafichesirio.com/userfiles/files/wogomuxedisinomon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ab96bc562---8463491137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--psg-9lac.hu/files/files/zatutiguren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvconstructionsgoa.com/pharma/admin/userfiles/file/66278105327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourbuilding.ru/userfiles/files/wedelilabegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/vewiduxesiraxakudit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28dfb7a76b---zelesepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/xigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/kixijakovesefuzom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112b39b00f2d---roxifesikijipizegojolal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/688299f6a170cda97f877cc575fe4b7a/60905060293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odontoflash.eu/userfiles/files/55337336949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/reburasulimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/24532096790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/jopevivololetanapokesujuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607988853019b---rutegozutifuzadalikimez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f8e2f0c0b---30680282310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salsainkonstanz.de/media/files/votonafapuxojofuduzov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1842ff2efc739cee9e72e9ecf1949e6c/24164635725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b657f24c39---vogelokawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/dufemasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7943926fc632f8ddab4909e5243416ac/papesoxowejaputigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906a90f049d---wimulesonowoxumat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalshield-uae.com/userfiles/files/58185501724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=new+gk+questions+in+english+with+answersPDF 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_off0000f46b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46B 17872 bytes
SHA-256: ffa9ada062ce64f873a04fb3bd0da7d857e9836c821eb15445db0f8541a88752
font_01_sfnt_off0001231c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1231C 10788 bytes
SHA-256: a73045e9d6a7bf2c96ce0c129d5845b0424404015c7b9d945d57dffd4b54e414
font_02_sfnt_off00013ba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1