Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f242596cb42397a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 15:58:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 9d6f6632084f9c870e3506980ab2c834 SHA-1: cb423b41e14f8a00b92e7465deac5a0e10081ad1 SHA-256: f242596cb42397a66f9bbc9f547a2e3139f1a7ba2d745972b75eeeeeb2a0955c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic firings indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to external content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=el+mejor+traductor+de+pdf+de+ingles+a+espa%C3%B1ol+online PDF link annotation
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a812b291fb---17529651909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/barujupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ec3c353ed75e95ae1f03c0f869eeafe/85379623771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buffagiuseppeinfissi.com/userfiles/files/40146200583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de3a1c5e95720cf403bfdf8ab4e22477/vutofiwutixuxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncltandatbar.com/home/ncltandat/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tebikoxefisosomug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/el8hs59h8idb3vin54k55se6ut/40777260090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16226579172731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc10d337308---16458692046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyuangang.com/UserFiles/file///mesomagiselotofixokidizif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofahatinh.com/upload/files/13191009040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cerquilho.sp.gov.br/public/admin/globalarq/uploads/files/96266257628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/turolosikupemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knurussian.kr/DATA/upload/files/202109012111259767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed86d2a50364664337ca0bcefcba8aaf/79402573398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/kuzosanewikexeburilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krajinar.cz/soubory/files/39158469677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivetripper.com/userfiles2020/files/mekez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbc1c75a02a---sogaleje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/nugejumozanatigasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///dosupobujiwuxuzinul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemochem.cn/upload/files/dijakibetefewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91dc27c0b9---nulisedodojofewudubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c83002d86e---godorebuwigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/silufogoka.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_off0000e3c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBDF 11380 bytes
SHA-256: d85c428ab60f4061681fe8f0068c8132b690d71113a14c852774d271fb2d43aa
font_02_sfnt_off0001161d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1161D 19460 bytes
SHA-256: 5c39ed1b6ceb074d34a05f7344604a03c444b8ecfb5fbceac14c3754c1a0ef92