Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f42df16abd962807…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-11 09:14:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8de9936e94d30cccd12affb1e8a8ffb3 SHA-1: 78ea53d2f8741d86650b799654f033ce74bd1f17 SHA-256: f42df16abd9628079305f352b5779f55101af08eed638abe0b1fd2bccd1ddfba
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to disposable hosting, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high ML classifier score further indicate malicious intent. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports a phishing or trojanized document classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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.
  • 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 https://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vilirewutun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abw10thstreetne.com/uploads/files/62620966246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aguejfegacgj0ad.xn--p1ai/pict/file/kolazozawowevemawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phaptangpgvn.net/app/webroot/upload/files/28876887257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanphongphamhienluong.com/upload/files/pakubatiwonavalapopow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/86710440179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinoscaform.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109070628055016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/40911906409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e96d3d8a3---72898893228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realcomfort.ru/content/upload/file/lilewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/laxoranipekap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/13704077813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsslife.net/upload/ckfinder/files/linagakere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19p10uv4t2ospj2442kqbrpalm/lokibujenedederizeteba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ristovski.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/64775829217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lixarusixubesoziwunuxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chokysitohang.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/lesakakugolisitamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cps-mbstu.edu.bd/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67438787573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/95052649626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3h8h5ioj4nsqugqk8jhf9pg0r/somamixapugam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zifuneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.liftechforklifts.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zijojarelaralumadisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=download+discord+apk+for+windows+10PDF 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_off0000b460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB460 10736 bytes
SHA-256: cb40b3454e54d8c523e97b1d016deadacf46d3b0a10e120d2bdbe59c09f64693
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD33 15556 bytes
SHA-256: 16690ab24c74b85ac4bb17f3e66183a7c836ed453f3899e2b4842382ee280d30
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1