Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42c6baece1315fa8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-07-23 09:03:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 44fb89e1ff81953d39c9f384714c2bd8 SHA-1: cfa8cfe38763944d1b29fee7e48bfc8b0900d470 SHA-256: 42c6baece1315fa8f876f50f18003c50481c6edd6668ebeaf30ca2f51e6031a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within form upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of these links and the detection results point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b5fab388c---rivesupabajalasupezatu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021051201310273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd55ec81e937f79d4b5be9f096ab0d39/vetovemuvuwijuxedojed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28d2f0bd09---62138658462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e740853748---81642212325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fd8f5bff2---bizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctmmaximoravenna.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51871470932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.ch/files/file/jowisikulilijimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607348e004113---zadaxawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanul-muresenilor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rp969eilbaiqdopdi4r45s4ehj/53587770992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda786be9c7---lufisepadofugezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilityservices.it/file/26945480588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/xaxidulinugedidawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbfc166a59f---33384513692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/gasukepek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/40861723627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81ec268414c5a93a01d0f210f5658b4a/pewuxaxizadobovumeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investincarpathians.eu/app/webroot/media/files/nusotuxazakurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fugakamujolevuxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/bipapimibomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/wokujevibev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a71d35fd398aa0854dafd6f67e29289f/9556753892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/41645246102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f78a1e93ff9---73752974693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/svavnimjhd3huj18iner3a7a36/muwojuritebekagisujoxula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+dragon+egg+do+in+minecraftPDF 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_off0000ffb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB1 10868 bytes
SHA-256: b9e84ac722edc603add1b0ce0dbf722f41c2c794f0eb39818df0f174affd8ad5
font_01_sfnt_off00011872.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11872 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013084.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13084 17336 bytes
SHA-256: f3bbd0901c1dcb5126f46006918967e710206a7e2a81785ed6996a5628bfcbd1