Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43080e6797ca63bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:55:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 01547ea215669df582b7e2046abb06ce SHA-1: dd84d9dd99ceacb8f8633cd040d6443051e3ba0c SHA-256: 43080e6797ca63bb188ba164ea2a800f90e3a06ce74d9415a7dc090fb1227076
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing attempts. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or redirection-based attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6943af7e1---zodesivibudiwufefok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sesebomuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/simunuwitufovuluvebibaniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c36888d8eff---pijobutekumodob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37cb84b12d5206b4213e832743cef268/durutavevadafevuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/78443346683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/34530240392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbcf52cf6b5a5b1afaa33b1e40938b2d/14347614868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/17983965573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/69387158858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/23396591421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac69be77032---zixelavijusasegojolanojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ed984cf3a---48787490734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kukrudmegfdouceqqebiiel8e6/bivexidufobamazatijog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764cb922cc2---karuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falegnameriacastiglione.it/userfiles/files/52598761290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a02ffc13db51fe8d6aaab9fb1ea3294/36715373335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f4d2b4c64---meweseteguwopusolekola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edgecs.com/documents/sebozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161243d20b243c---zokumaxinufem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/75412008031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca597dfd06---69053480839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drakbera.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nakuzale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084755d4dcc5---darimisigadivejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=ertiga+gl+2016+manualPDF 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_off0000cf5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF5B 20332 bytes
SHA-256: 0357404fa53fb1858047e7d9ce157ca7abea778bbab973c642783517fa080c5c
font_01_sfnt_off0001050f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D26 10576 bytes
SHA-256: e9a89a08960970a1e07b363da481ad3dcfe2bc4b2c9a99e952b68800f5c54d82