Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43469fba51bbb5ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.8 KB Created: 2021-08-10 03:53:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0b4f832e9b4b6bd1c07397f3aabde487 SHA-1: b9055196d0f8f0cfc3e99e8c384c91dc948a2d75 SHA-256: 43469fba51bbb5ce0886c1bfc1afd90c067d2093fb61ff08fd88996fe95aa3b3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The presence of a 'download button' lure and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to trick users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sacred+heart+school+yankton+sd+calendar PDF link annotation
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e271d732178ade5e2accbd1a1370879/65792643065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalweek.eu/userfiles/files/6294428615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e99648727---bazejizofazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpisvka685p2qf5soh1hks29kq/juvukerilofibikos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duragloss.pl/userfiles/file/xepunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/98956652099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202106/file/melaxojunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d3bf95c5890d90f182fd8d99218b03c/95045171176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/77038168683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/dexujifoposetasuzuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/vawopovowirufejeveweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/rimadefimex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af1d02a3d66d7a9f03779788c61a58bb/83036435388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/62369469455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731698c7c6a---mekelurolewupaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/184b51629e88437b41c3e3c427013788/43729419629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f30f2c39ca---47389244144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioego.cz/userfiles/file/fuvezikapajovomokeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b64b2681bd61f991d722300ccf27838c/jowejavelezodudora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/zawopefapirijagigaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/depag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweatrinserepeat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zujurudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/resar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/woxakilepezodijem.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_off00012b6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B6A 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 5726491370fb25df61d20aef87e8830282a9de52a9874accc46882f02afdee0a
font_01_sfnt_off000143d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143D0 18532 bytes
SHA-256: 642194e398ecbde21f0e911bfbc5ef137d48acefe9889253c108d43015457ada
font_02_sfnt_off000174f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x174F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1