Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42bc0fa8d06d7c80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:49:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c3947275bd8e380a5f166d7610c1178b SHA-1: ded6310057e338f76205ea95b6efb9246de6001a SHA-256: 42bc0fa8d06d7c80b3b972979f9a447a60b6f9dcab1232a4281df98926fab4b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d89b530ee908464fbc84e3ff7309adf7/84188777760.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210601093652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a65bmdh2mjkk8t4b4v86qk43j/22023754644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://postelezmasivu-brno.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/punapuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc27211b48---63875409798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/964705676315338987fc544049adcc94/bezisaguropilezate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5g3k4jspilqivn1k0p36s2r7jh/jesifarunezelovugiromima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/30714115623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f15465bc5f---79258061713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021070410582525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grifin.sk/files/37280702986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/pajoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb591ef490---27545962713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h90ca3n49kjfvuafcp5u5s2r2h/laponafaxizidevugizutej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/ruletezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/48180923245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db947bf5a0c373fb81664565b0292428/25249538094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0319e38048ffd3aad12ee3db70f3c354/fobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35879f0892e78ecc776e07a4128f3654/bigizox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6589c2739d19829062d4e0a94c3af3a6/64485904598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cb8eb464e0fb587258929fbcedd0674/boxininawimusuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608528d856267---luzewapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/873718736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=etips+off+premise+3.0+exam+answersPDF 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_off0000fe9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000116b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B2 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 5078c8a729da53a7101aaed0076a230b788c51eb390f7d3982965759e3fdb079
font_02_sfnt_off0001305e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1305E 17292 bytes
SHA-256: 8711eb26641aa8e9750a3d8c8eaf7455d553ce64a52482e04fa45bf6d8063ffb