Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42b0666380867cb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:55:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: af7909bc69551344ce09372faf2ae468 SHA-1: a24c6b84a6d5a5c5b6e0671b6a0900346efc3e68 SHA-256: 42b0666380867cb6e2a434a7144ef5c17352ccc043cd6ca87fe9fe0418f31a26
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, indicating a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The ML classifier strongly supports this assessment, and the presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting further reinforces the malicious nature of the file. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis to the document structure and embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 5

  • 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://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3a949f05e---44158529194.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sampoernastrategic.com/uploads/image/files/3328289104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charugarware.com/DEVELOPMENT/charu_garware/uploaded/userfiles/file/86198781640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48d6dd11a235637525d537602fc1125b/1334090998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2a4157c6b---xagemiwubatage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pt9qkh3dnq1bofm7lfvg5t349c/316238030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/65168741083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df16855a2aafbef886a21d7aa5a13021/sibejizadopapuvofixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de42f12912---pixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082636fa347e---28726873781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/zojit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/gobumefutonekutaziweboxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elmundodelapiscina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gefanit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f047b56c8959cc608bc75338672e1bc/56207868263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vientangluc.com/upload/files/1164893311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/56638646298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/dulatidikasarukojexuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79bc06ad33---28991314787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://branonperformance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54659706758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oncaeq9dajq924rcj9idru87rq/vazozato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/66529306293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--zb0by3yusal20ak5lcidnwigi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1628359587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/inhc5i5f5oa193pkasjjpkjesj/lamulitugabebulexugusemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendybiz.in/usersfiles/file/66431676290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobmedia.hu/include/watezewavariviwumewixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=read+pdf+book+onlinePDF 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_off0000db02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB02 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 07325c375f70188cad247cc6eeb86cd9e9963d01e271dcfc1f582ce2591ed43b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f257.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF257 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A69 17544 bytes
SHA-256: 6987c1de5c1b1fe34b910b22743895a9ff4943ca3f9735fc34e5cbbd3b6435d0