Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42cf254b8459bc40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-07-21 14:02:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 91bed8cfbfe681544a598f6e21d66675 SHA-1: f917ceddb33e9ce83835beef346d5328309ed3e9 SHA-256: 42cf254b8459bc40baeeb982a62322f52cc488fbb5e753b61b6041781614b952
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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 http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9e418c7c29---navazewunapat.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3bcc7f279---silon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823b82dca06---25300592296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/rubugapidimipamasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53dsc30c9r7eafjrdan5p4m4bv/56764721036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/tevowunalapaxomugasiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df0qdov9bpgjmqeda6q9aj1em8/rubagepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f552f321922c301dfb7a120ba5bbdd1b/87642038151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/50221879660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuxaxilopusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021071521204473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48168984556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745c85b416a---8682820816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/42991918447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608520140a528---64092783103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607badef02612---30236644857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8c951812f1---luvuduzetuwube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwama4.vn/webroot/img/files/zavomamifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c80a41a382---10036600251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgmsvodc8dbc8od0hf052k71f2/23354557061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4b80acd6f---varigoxusomuwuboretawasit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eabd85872ce621543f29c6680bc26f7/46186253303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828e8447895---tinevonulumizugitap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ks40221kbv2ntk5uqgn39aivj1/zarapovob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=oval+face+shape+hairstyles+malePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7CE 17960 bytes
SHA-256: 47b0915f8ce0d279f08459d7f2a449e9e3a3d375b2798ecf0c89056a1c7e88ea
font_01_sfnt_off0001263e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1263E 10724 bytes
SHA-256: b52030b193d5db877cdbc104f76c401a5e040a5074ebc11d9ba697ef14211bee
font_02_sfnt_off00013efe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EFE 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_03_sfnt_off00015443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15443 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1