Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43163650c6efb55c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:59:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4e4b5e5264af8d6ee880ea65ab888d44 SHA-1: 29817e4a8d84059be87e5e162524078a4810055c SHA-256: 43163650c6efb55ccf319e4d623592cbc73b29dd7039d44868463b022b4dee41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the linked sites suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=laurie+perreau+today PDF link annotation
    • http://starrwindow.com/clients/863399/File/rusikekokerenizevomoxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpspcb.com/uploads/files/3534841311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc438e1616---82661791106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8e3e0fb49---50396423039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f31nflqoq0dc4kc369c0ejikr/16714160760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/jipazopebifiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/2021727713533308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ltptech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/bavivemapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englishplanet.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/disixezakazufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwclayton.com/uploads/files/76519176914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.com/uploads/images/files/34724059894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/lenarexumopesevedekexoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myveolife.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c29f7c0be539fe4d02d6f0133826642/90140790027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opuntia.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2982b89b22ad348a81f55827581473b4/jesowosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/5650065676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rjobkfbk9p6dudnhp3rtotjbe1/92522997389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/matobivagigunepeligud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festacontinua.it/public/file/80982777919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzatabc.hu/files/file/vijejarobiropikawopase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelclinton.it/userfiles/files/55369323913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mueblesgamez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92235261772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/zafiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/refinalelofidurikegijeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/13661654798.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_off0000e819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE819 18544 bytes
SHA-256: ee71b4c4bfd1946bf10929b5fcc7d74474671e3cef2268ea456b358e5589ceff
font_01_sfnt_off00011804.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11804 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001301b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1301B 10236 bytes
SHA-256: daf5ba50e6f6f1fe79a23f65fd65e3f0a38a4eaeb297bf7cb761f83f7625c3fe