Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea42dc740aff423a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:00:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f2e6c52547efa0b9cc2c36535222919f SHA-1: d6a5483f2551f1076545bba1beabf059ab3bcc7b SHA-256: ea42dc740aff423ac0e10f08e51639584bf446242a1889de9250f4b1a9b1a99a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high number of external links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, strongly indicates a malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://skpizzasubs.com/uploads/files/kinagizukasukejasetovap.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de168b53a8955442ce6a18602dacbf64/73881812773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5829b0c01---zorazovukuxagofimufeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/42849575783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210626024354_s1yyei.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/99137427403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0ab7b12bb27cb04cadfcda9477fe11f/68435142106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943bbf6a2aa---41824451665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45921356767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/981b355010b4e64a7783d8f66b686525/tibinexab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anup.bo/images/files/27801405227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797fe4e3d0a---1037707919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b91c202ee2b---94610175382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taiwan-tiaya.com/upload/tiaya_official/files/92034273546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smithsgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/judoxawabeferazojavuwowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cps-mbstu.edu.bd/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39127116106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmountvernon.com/uploads/files/12371941893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/35412629906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f88e313da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/57622389115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/latozof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a1ddc86d212199c2253b3c57be2600b/37928756990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/54241855272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa666c58ec3---rosajazenizob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57c3c12610808d9f1e2be22533680b4d/67727849516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=feliciano+and+uy+solution+manualPDF 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_off0000d349.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD349 17388 bytes
SHA-256: 5a63d5440123b516615cb2ec7ed6a59c60edc7702f9c2d9302d01d1ad9630c08
font_01_sfnt_off00010054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10054 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001186b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1186B 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 2780d1aed28f78bf718f7d0f3d73eefdf12ea7be5cbb05ffc58e581e4e097fc2