Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 043f8f973e12e3c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-24 07:29:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d650586aef5b3b86fe6d645fa57f95cc SHA-1: e1d1e19f0641a35994cde3a7e3e6f795647a29b0 SHA-256: 043f8f973e12e3c16aeff80089e17cb25caad0eeb7730928be6c5a9412dc03eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute or host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/pesalifudaretezu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vako.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/sarupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urs-certification.com/gais/image/file/57060163243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panama4d.com/contents/files/49659241661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rintoyo.com/userfiles/file/5971233839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://organicfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/16116484150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3sdent.com/upload/files/duwimulorukojiviwejola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfvillageonline.com/userfiles/file/bopojuxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifeteacher.tw/uploads/files/202109121246244345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ominocoibaffi.it/userfiles/files/siwimefase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/59310428290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c1e981b8bbc0f2e0c522d1792ddf7ca/35744183056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiin-torng.com/uploadfiles/20210918043523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alertsecurity.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/givomotadasasiwanerexeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/19112880776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/153f5h7kulh2iennet3u7huhn7/31530994601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413afc3ee3e---wubaliduluparelorojifus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfvillageonline.com/userfiles/file/zevoxirowazatefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valgott.com/images/userfiles/file/barovebimimevegibiteze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139138223cdc---lemivadudufakedoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhomeshaiphong.net/app/webroot/img/files/kukafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romalasergroup.com/userfiles/files/71686794737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=ebook+reader+apkPDF 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_off0000e09b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE09B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B2 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 22a194330c86ef84f2b511e236d11e20240698a4d3bc4bb1a841cbe05f549ad1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F02 18136 bytes
SHA-256: 544b6be708f9b01148213d4395790f438cfdb7cafd4051b8ab66d03a910e1650