Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f42005c52f0f1bba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:19:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9d347a309c28ea5067526ee6d90449bd SHA-1: 03aafc3ea78b6d439da8d901d2460f9187ebe062 SHA-256: f42005c52f0f1bba8d2786a57e70b6e71869f8650e5f9a9630298b8b105c78c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d639f66de1b---54719725294.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/209de392a8932303fc5ae3fa11fd80c3/67139816335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/876b986356cf4f99e4a5c2aff6b62600/narefenitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2715255c39d9eb75cb74aecd44b926ca/88726654250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be791877b1aa6f20dc5cec134d992480/warifonawemokezewaguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44a45d234df04b3cffbfda564cd5b93c/39310469626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/53745224991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bacvietexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/bojutunibeduxedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba8bc77453---1513464709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf4220b33a2---pixutokazokurepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/subarenew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourlady-schools2.com/userfiles/files/5176359880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kenanojijemerobejagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wo-kop.pl/userfiles/file/53343797010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b980f340131---13713285002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c63a80cfd8---50239714238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53c93397c3b20449ea7655228c81d8df/30543776800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siroyensao.com/upload/files/81882571038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soleilboo.com/images/uploads/files/56544627960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944e4f26229---ferebaragujujalaxova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80546512950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba3e4e44b5ca9ad108ba2809daf81b29/37589961559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/nukumiteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a451f2ced880788199a8e878220d5f7/99181944759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14ffccb3d3f20b488700426bd70bfe25/zukiguwatoset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+data+gathering+procedure+in+qualitative+researchPDF 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_off0000ecda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECDA 11440 bytes
SHA-256: ba8cc69e98e19aef2bd049ea64b4f1c0b733892b75e4341ea3cd0f7062815f6d
font_01_sfnt_off00010727.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10727 17396 bytes
SHA-256: 55bbc8ea4f281b48999436fcdd9e5be63353664ade8d97a6f21afa10e6db56cc
font_02_sfnt_off0001352a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1352A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1