Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43215619e8375fba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:26:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 110105dd2eb892051da3f3c55cc947df SHA-1: a1984fa9e4a574f8db354037b7ac4c5135e8a468 SHA-256: 43215619e8375fba097d571473eaa93e996e8e1d5c7db6b3d9d40838f2eab0ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely to distribute further malware or conduct phishing. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to exploit search engine rankings or trick users into visiting malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9764

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://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085872b75921---99640573534.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coytex.net//ckfinder/userfiles/files/moworojizoliloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77b56ae835---50407756930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/945d766fa4f29f93866d0a973985289b/titexas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f67d2124b---63385085743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gwynharmon.com/home/gwyn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zamumexugogonud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c04ae95ad48---33395999417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86223446322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fd05c1789f5f218bd25c8916d16b86f/36810327100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9176911d7---wavijoxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-baltic.com/myfiles/dok/todureb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bbc3cadc5df09eeb4ace9ec27efe500/ritosarizadepewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943ab2c0c6c---96956069199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607583aa39008---vasegatapifusasupugexupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7a560b04ecb898a4b2a217aec455633/63172592345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dryoucosmeceutical.com/userfiles/files/jexapevemukemitab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/wedawejazozuzig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/76540312422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/rekidowilusolixanumedado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f51fd77f43---98470545580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/bugeresiranewalom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ravufoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/58928870520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leguido.net/files/fedutewuwelatigus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702c9f81fde---pibebigorebojukafavavifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a814681c4f8---milafakeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ro35luhn4uosvkj7ho1oakvjp2/96143258942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=kidde+fire+alarm+instruction+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c2cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE4 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 4c156179f020ff87349afbc34a1e72e80f14909f6476d4ad4b6214438b5757b4
font_02_sfnt_off0000f381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF381 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 1dce802d31eaad2af07ed92db09e55f510a94ffbdc0c1d2e1e69ad4416012921
font_03_sfnt_off00010eed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EED 16884 bytes
SHA-256: d2b0b8720038d519c382f155f733d671335ceffd138521df86ce7c2d2c5c465b