Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f42dd41124f975cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:09:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a0f4de888ecf50e7649fbc60dd794c50 SHA-1: ae82287e367562af4b8da51913eb8fc961779bed SHA-256: f42dd41124f975cb8f9c7d83931cf09be1487502d0570771d0cde3003e39f1c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or link farms on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable text, suggesting it's designed to be non-transparent to analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=access+network+storage+android
    • http://nedvizhimost-v-sharm-el-sheikhe.ru/uploads/files/59309330658.pdf
    • https://weishinclinic.com/uploads/files/202109020938403597.pdf
    • http://eksternest.be/images/file/52229852554.pdf
    • https://ap-qatar.com/userfiles/files/38268007941.pdf
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xefezubowiradob.pdf
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/jupilamelam.pdf
    • http://aquatherm-graz.at/files/kepevovaxupifutem.pdf
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff701bfb77---38764654167.pdf
    • http://e5tbr.alruaa.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/85634905183.pdf
    • https://cyc-catering.pe/disac/userfiles/file/22714449193.pdf
    • https://myphambambi.com/webroot/img/files/woderefogejaxurizukazomu.pdf
    • http://spiregene.com/image/files/20210905_231438.pdf
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea70b230010ebdd93f4ba79a41324578/7519274677.pdf
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/67972395902.pdf
    • https://pastijptoto.com/contents/files/18267043393.pdf
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142660cdc59f---matazit.pdf
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614155bc9b459---64805595319.pdf
    • https://fuze-pay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23974419925.pdf
    • http://mastera-mix.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poguxizinejap.pdf
    • https://lecourbe.dk/userfiles/file/94796144167.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c9c45840b82188d1d4a08ca19bac813/39463542451.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2851a61f0044dde974cde8f9bd094da6/7361807877.pdf
    • http://dotykbylinky.sk/_subory/subory/botabonutivulot.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d84b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD84B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f062.bin
1278984fe9f5f15fa72acace57e79f63fac02759f603e992f3123c11701ba06e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF062 10660 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000108d7.bin
2893534a26088892039d42cf045bad7c86116e59ab0bc6eb39dee24b1d07489b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D7 17224 bytes