Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43379f21fc866329…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:34:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: ff90681a0ff8fb2997a2f7a842210803 SHA-1: 658ab017420ad56322436b72fa697e6232dd3410 SHA-256: 43379f21fc8663299c754b8d1198a69490804931b9eaf9e45f613d0647d1fa3e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://studioboscono.it/userfiles/files/92782787635.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://blueyee.com/upload/file/051603511004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777c8ba28c1---fafinusexejasupapodedofaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/sufowuzakefaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56594839218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/89859130645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allivecoat.com/userData/board/file/pikuresozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecda61203867ee109c848e4ee2f59e82/22772894913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7861ec83e7---67786504937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winhazel.com/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69431517992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilocom.net/webroot/img/files/pegexenido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a03ed63dc2dacdbad39971eab163707/91523927464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4263df292---75406657996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musclecar-taps.com/js/upload/files/30378715319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d0c4d3f350d9544a2e8ceae40fd5791/sivolezaruputu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/xafolikuxiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/gipuvidavowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f08d1d8ef11c79cd9eb3d3eb7007da1/14843033131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941cffe5f4c---25840433790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cb40c9b34---77984807024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/fidowozuragasuvakakuxofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161008845189d5---4479260019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/miwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=post+office+savings+account+opening+form+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_off0000eb8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A0 18416 bytes
SHA-256: c64e8de68b19e63a86452672b4c7bca590dd1146841ee12b10bacdaa5dffdd36
font_02_sfnt_off0001338a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1338A 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 3d20e4eb46dfdf471af521ff509e682fda1f9f90819d7eb192354e374cc6c479