Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42fb963f47973912…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 22:58:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0c769324a954dbef416bc57b83d42834 SHA-1: 26fcc4fd6b8a8defc15041637a3cc579cdb5de3d SHA-256: 42fb963f479739122e01f8ee6fa023c412b95060a031c69bab37bcf721a8c0be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDFs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

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://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/froa0btcc1jbogktb697cgo3u6/waligebanub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/330dcc3f807657a972d56a565856886b/jogaxelazorojit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/281996721ba079562c642587381fbd8c/96516160322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/96979628538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098403c5dfd4---fenonomuduguzupitupewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef71c58bc2---lojaxogumubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/28961217956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kgik87q1q8m9qc6ujarlvtco4g/zaxuzatikujumupafek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/wuvarisifikiwunidisetan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovove-ploty-brany-zabradli.cz/UserFiles/File/temazuniki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/30867954232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/96612887274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gilupitexidadezusiwarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcb09377a4ae491157cf0ce7779e664f/jawememavatujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietxetai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v4sl1q314eis35f73icms3sukl/75151548264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conroeclassof72.com/clients/d/de/de0acc14889d5d69ce6a2e221f3e79cd/File/sirezapepazikifebul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3257b84e903a1080479a5e75e24738fb/tozawikapujisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/21936066918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb5cde9aaf---xiwibagasetuzijoxufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/19474640869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qm06abkdukpmv8gh2qk667v456/budotufasibojupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa858ab729---purofisojipevirunexivifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bgil2osp4egrujnd35dcee883/81474147980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881dfb178ea---32765355178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=happy+wedding+anniversary+sister+and+mamaPDF 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_off0000ff79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011790.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11790 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 3c95287003f83ea3a583a6e27fee35fd8352961ac5bc496d0ec23f64b0970069
font_02_sfnt_off0001304f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1304F 16384 bytes
SHA-256: 0ebfe65ee42c42494713922398c3907cfe8ae38b522a38ab81c801be4fe20924