Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43359fce41280f11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 21:17:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6b57d051c1ecb6f3b8ec9c6240a4a833 SHA-1: 46016e3062755f6ec9e79f21526c35f0b9afc4fc SHA-256: 43359fce41280f11403a1f1e83d7907a4b3f63914a959ea4d1a27ffacc3d3c7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://rallyteamwalraven.nl/file/jirawufusujadimizekeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/rowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dadrarad.ro/userfiles/file/xabiboberawadewofat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-cosmik.ru/sadm_files/gurusabem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jensbrode.de/files/file/fekerobixur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwemfjhjk.friend-match.com/upload/files/6894966924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82c5c818076b9a5304097e697ea53b7d/jubujefumanabesigekigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drlalashow.com/php/billboard/uploads/file/36000735696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e54883fae---nelifofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.name/eros/userfiles/file/9635415713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/69134021214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/21087078845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vedepcuaem.com/luutru/files/59541130767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobisteelegypt.net/userfiles/file/23558845036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariaparvaz.com/basefile/ariaparvazcom/files/juwagawefefuxitonijato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a4f3bc9df---bakivamubamasepokidaxipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbbs.hr/files/37029889957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunrise-photon.com/upfiles/editor/files/32630794240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoon-source-harmonie.fr/public/file/nifaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scmsgroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/likoduge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=planos+de+estructuras+metalicas+para+techos+pdfPDF 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_off0000d619.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD619 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2B 20064 bytes
SHA-256: 2b0141c23efd5920e7182a021c56267b04625922f1c04dbb4beeb87f536749df
font_02_sfnt_off00012135.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12135 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 1c12fdca50238f634b61fab4b25a9d96dcf47a5295132068b839c617c8508add