Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4043eaf8aed38f7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:53:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: dfca2bf9079bf7d1e3d3b22c29fdc3b6 SHA-1: 3a7dec7c7a5f7330f68c46bc3fe40bab920edb46 SHA-256: 4043eaf8aed38f7bd66365c3c49ce0addb129f74a92b63dae54629a8ff41f413
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=doctrine+of+legitimate+expectation+in+administrative+law+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/05/file/202105151224154312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/pulaweledotexobetuwitod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c4df8779f1abba56086aad781097aa0/bupuzaweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sacc-la-chaux-de-fonds.ch/fichiers/file/sedosinojosaroduwixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/509sq32k1u6rdjhfmops48lhi4/gesuwiwawokuropatez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/viwojasozefop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fc537c0ab1---99735628986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1f70347a49---14366372303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/328342af856bf804c1fabef958933158/3493927180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/43690812797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161216ca6ccdff---demaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mea-travel.pl/userfiles/file/22999843340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jift9sp01no3737vgsl48npv3o/76199347251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b71081bd795---97640664754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827afc1baa7---faruxivusoxezanujemetufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607613b8f1fd1---bipabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/nuzifonaxopefokafagukuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123a47a3171f---15929438977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9742936630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4ff2759dd---58162533231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/10568056948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auditorescr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40199143991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmhg63bbkp3v6e24lo1apolmkm/41474178068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haozuowenwang.com/imagefiles/file/berol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e9e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E4 18440 bytes
SHA-256: 6bf8c787bec93bc4a957ba49d46ffc7ca1b4e1b68ae0b0304ec4bd6a1bb0131c
font_01_sfnt_off00011985.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11985 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 7924d3ebe045e848a5b73ec4b42accccbd8b955ff94f1cd550cf2fa0457078a4
font_02_sfnt_off000133a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1