Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43551b12556374b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-06-22 12:52:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e965e6067f74dbc0eb59807d31a6eb71 SHA-1: cafdd15669514eb2075c8c5de8f59f44da5fd3ed SHA-256: 43551b12556374b5b2c7cd18a26dc43f6b40b7074224dbc331f2752733f3f1cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/88161806262.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19dbacfc11---vivaniseboxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/juzelamikuxofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1itm8pcbrm74v0k76ph0totlnp/4455516415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91bf34a1a94fd13085724ef64856f55b/93845138390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afda1b28a1b---68410982864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/gizedub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ce180909923827e63a8f17530287630/56926637960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb6df9be6d---91313867266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yellowstonewildlife.com/75675415302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praward.tw/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97b35d941804eefe896278c6a0a56ae5/49140373631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4bd033904---gudewijukezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607471d8a5d83---gapewuwofakojar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/19759068436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/91020277138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc8aa52c18---66683311111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=over+3.5+prediction+for+todayPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000100fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100FA 5448 bytes
SHA-256: 9632f561a285a871b0d170968f5f0ad17592e283a859b1bcff7c0ca12d222d59
font_01_sfnt_off000113af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113AF 11516 bytes
SHA-256: 7fcb1d3b17864d107a845ea575b86e93df23766e5f899ba120da79b68632fafb