Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43538484e8d1c609…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 16:12:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7a71becd527334b27f9a45687c76e9ab SHA-1: 56619ff9301314424806e9c831f03e3be18d2c73 SHA-256: 43538484e8d1c609e911da24fbd526d6391aa5c819a5057980ada0571b8745ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV specifically identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URI heuristics and the link farm structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://getampedmag.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13591499423.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tranindo.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/58747838391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavionescodeinsa.com/userfiles/41578602373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingstop.com/uploads/files/gizejovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/dezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/89184959271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/volux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddaengshop.com/ckupload/files/dixofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3t0hk1pql3aovis8msnmghl7q/15655319969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demo-enriquemora.shopcloud.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81918993424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terfigyelokamera.info/files/file/fuzedidobamovaniki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614119520fe3d---notagesokizanojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feynburg-uhren.de/uploads/75859821561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letsfinal.com/userfiles/file/8912072586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobiliteit.nu/files/61112628005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xepelofosiwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/89867883665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bff6241f1e---93778255809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a8205cee3d---19510359640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukienmiennam.com/userupload/files/lepajefizazumikawuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210917235544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprofitnesstrainers.com/userfiles/file/mekodazuroxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puebloexec.com/userfiles/file/mududobuzokikogusone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132cdb08050b---juxoxanexaxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vo23.ru/upload/file/xibekunewisipifixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=apa+hp+android+ituPDF 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_off0000ded5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED5 18188 bytes
SHA-256: 5e96ad9df31a29d21f07b6222b85500afd34ff26a922bc2e677f51fd16fbad6d
font_01_sfnt_off00010e0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E0E 10224 bytes
SHA-256: bc98074d32d11a8603e5ab0796f491542db4583991ac015bacc243799a2c87a6
font_02_sfnt_off000124e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1