Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0403af43dcbd7b9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-17 16:55:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 10c3e6da90eae2e269104c858ed63e7a SHA-1: a54a0ad391547a51967763e44b362127c5b2c75f SHA-256: 0403af43dcbd7b9b656179cd91033623b5905a897ae3e9c3d881e94bef3c5049
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to manipulate search engine rankings or direct users to malicious content. The presence of multiple links on potentially disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://samtekelektrik.com/files/zipajajowavomasifaba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/ninabenuzafowoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6abaed440b7687079696686aa539d42e/lelorofuluxemojuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/86718780054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.org/upload/30740454180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstroy96.ru/uploads/files/5150006958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jooli.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sejodixutoxoxirokufuloze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v8p4j2f9l9vu76ci940joj2ub8/23758622378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ad3b980f908ec57def2ce5314af0074/mutidukixuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarant0g3l-turbo-h1t.com/contents//files/32649042674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/11050968561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd09507b86353f8b9ffccb1301fdfae7/bimameberud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdcb71035a5---karedudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/80250378987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4ea31976fa0a747bacb993def715b3a/zorarokotebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/danivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a9baed65e3e4de725b9b4fce9d8962a/81201645311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/11016984338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/files/palenaviki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff38a6a8cd---tasodubagepowuzer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6cd1f3110f---nifepalokiluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609832e21e850---70435390432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3j3boik7pd6fc9n916co5pmrr8/sekeweredogewijenavisam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+operational+definition+of+the+dependent+variablePDF 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_off0000ee4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010664.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10664 10796 bytes
SHA-256: f4e618fd2e318c48cf88eec9bc7f8c82081d0c93c343c265d88bd6ad5ea86242
font_02_sfnt_off00011eff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EFF 16924 bytes
SHA-256: 4bae288ca3fc725ebc32aa005bc0c3dcade9d4b95500444c2cd0a4195c811547