Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f42d3066a37cd748…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 10:19:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8de8b43c13bebafd202ecfc59ae6d1ae SHA-1: 5348bd944dd40e3a557c6c19544f7e95a599093a SHA-256: f42d3066a37cd748e1212bc047d4cd71b6e8fd71c3383c9d7f0bac14ad602be0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing a link farm hosted on multiple compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as phishing or a trojan. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised upload directories suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination, likely a phishing page or a download server.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b5c4524a8---80305653519.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/66641713713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbnc81tkl3kqv0sd3ksiokeda4/perefokamubibisagusuzodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721f1c54e11---wesegeranonofedapofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1ec3f3bfd---61354371470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86542e4e0e---voxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fc745ec82---rodafapewidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8g485s6vgllqstrj6v0ub7g402/kinakapuresuluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/521e98a163ccdbe65dd33e42115fe7b6/nukolavelixamijun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8524835a65---gadediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/wugefidasefivedoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b8951aa73---nuwaniwotujadigurux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rkiejscjmcclqeta63s15b62d6/nezeduminigos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7kttd4nokd0j113v8a8ni6nbuv/21253953511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/pozoxutidegutog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tizianaiberti.it/userfiles/files/rudidune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16e4e8de6f875a008bbe379743caa07e/31011833136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/17226269533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba014e02e49---dubozaliwoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888f4ed9a25---porutekujuzaxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pratiklinik.com/img/userfiles/files/liwibuwovonevumatewug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/12723927782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf89c203efb---50087317159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a07eb3e95---nedetivuxuzawepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b536e3612800b5164529bf5b9e2e512/befemut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=just+add+magic+potion+problemsPDF 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_off0000cf91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF91 18112 bytes
SHA-256: 6a3006d1a8be59a92f1b18c82c673bb1be7a0109f4cca5c613b6fa852efdfced
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDF0 11088 bytes
SHA-256: b46256eedfdc5917a1a5cfc9de5cde9a16dcb41786f1e1087262639298640d85
font_02_sfnt_off00011754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11754 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1