Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42fcf7e3262237b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-08-22 07:24:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: e7805513fce116f2045c37fc51b0a98a SHA-1: 4dee596e05300a061a6481977db5672e89070a92 SHA-256: 42fcf7e3262237b7be297bf5c41fb7e502b82b648fd0325db4f14087e2937912
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a link farm hosted on compromised websites, designed to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive. This is a common tactic to bypass gateway security scanning. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9c12c3e4d9---26977131679.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b653fc7fd50---2786126739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevelec.com/bevelec/dossierMois/file/63538381746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-10/20210610110632325619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab235f85604---resazitof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/gukamelemevepijiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af9dce95a5---82416951046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/rerinodawawegosefuwoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalderini.it/userfiles/files/82539490773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/29742225217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/zosenurazexelawijuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95155d20a9---kafolezojifarazukoxokufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d2104c0f379b81f60c36da3cf39d86/57579308475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86f6cd8f61---77449756830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89884493654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gobelsprofil.com/upload/files/jibadaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/58296979516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c073ed67ae81c1224ce88a040bcc9fb/38129666997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608317b922995---50532562117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161213b9fcbc57---26711680242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamelove-zakryti.cz/userfiles/file/3272468199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/727cc73e495d66069390e793214a3c9d/polat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/214ece29bd8956ef61ac69c8c29ef6f3/limizigulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed35815e51019bc66c51e8356c2bffff/8134979703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+restore+to+earlier+backup+iphonePDF 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_off0000efb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB5 17272 bytes
SHA-256: ffb3eaa69460119e892b99415aa32d32a4d1183072201fe387953ef1873ebd7d
font_01_sfnt_off00011c1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C1C 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 31725c5af537fa8a660c02865779485ba03bdb6d54840e0ce4def72f31d6a0eb
font_02_sfnt_off0001350d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1350D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1