Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43444206ba3eda7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-08-04 13:28:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 68aadd8cbda8d0b5c63bf021161537cc SHA-1: 6216d6e94a42cd0e00d308beca479ac6158d1fe4 SHA-256: 43444206ba3eda7d487feec6c072dc6ba89e1f3f5fe239d213ea94cfdb0fad9b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic indicates a potential lure for downloading a payload, aligning with the phishing and trojan detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=primo+bottom+load+water+dispenser+troubleshooting PDF link annotation
    • https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/rovipubexefutunof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/ditulureseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/filavazebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sm1vrrc24tdt64cjb9qg3ronhg/39884230829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e25b239bb6eb0d09d306a9bf953b437/mewoxanewuvigirel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/zitizuruvoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuiquji.net/d/files/jovimafiditezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/gelanivododogisejidofadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0f1b64237072549632a21921026504b/zaridado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sdqi602a82d8qlu1ibjes9f6p1/28424829907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffb36d65da32cf5d7c53030dc219791c/sewametejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fonfe.com/uploads/files/68664933284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/88211851443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/nesigodijadut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arendic.cl/files/jafozajexowowimomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellar-toys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5264749378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29439979ab---fepasesekevadadanixem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5ba27009866940bb70028c712b27c90/wurokov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c115d678fc6---90584670004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hphmtl3u5dog6ats2b7banc0um/xetaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landpas.pl/upload/file/50683571584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8508270c591332539fe1c31776c716b/setati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/55338565428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/tetujojitifapikisovepeviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/91468653174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/rigofuvilovezap.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_off0000f065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF065 16736 bytes
SHA-256: a27eefc94ca57358d9521be9c75c95d56dd5a4ae3833389b64d4b83f11ebc017
font_01_sfnt_off00011b51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B51 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 3090743d33fdf610cd411b1d8c9dc13965721c7e1cb521ae9c69d1d780a7216b
font_02_sfnt_off000134d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1