Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42073f61aabb6e04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-10 09:26:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: c5f0753f8ea49f7357ab71857b137695 SHA-1: a09c9bd053de82d44535e495c21e66bcfcecb6da SHA-256: 42073f61aabb6e0432f85bf88a637ece64dd53cb718266b83599e4a7d11bef6f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=acting+the+maggot+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9baf2b26f2---luzigifivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086998b9a695---xemuluwaromibof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cc323ebeb70a5856a19edca3bd93ce5/xuzejuvifuxewesadizaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021062106024673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608391fe466ae---lazawapobarudim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tio1t6agqvsuoh7lupo47951r0/8133359724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1c2fd0872---97139353473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/80520616276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105292350295935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607636acc9d54---57822346387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ugaf6tahj7tl9s5fa9rvnhtnsj/bagovilakamudefojuful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/16839417769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/banut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabienneblavier.be/upload/files/jetuzitefixoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/runaboriridimimitudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db8d8838bc45881b3b42a0db8fa14f29/fotenupikojerutuxemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcb527ce7d---rasalodirixiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ufoc253d8k3j70en5l8fuujt3/27842031398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079de357f05f---vodowekazapetutaruduwanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/97795550070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/414b210ac6e5534fe5f2efe8d55be1fa/12164184738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e130851f4b---84500775813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e005077ce---wodawunajugiwafitape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad49777fde7---tubutavufemuzida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e657918e8f275f3717d65f4c6babf35/dekalejaxosazuj.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_off00010052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10052 10344 bytes
SHA-256: b95a351a61cfe2a4be8c6b15818c7817739633c57421edeb2497a8564b17bf4c
font_01_sfnt_off0001178b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1178B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F9D 17128 bytes
SHA-256: a137e4efcc6bb937225c58e821b9313bc4c7ea5654fa2cb4717327ae21c61ffc