Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43928a1b519f688d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 20:06:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2325f43d4c785715f94d9856f8a912d6 SHA-1: fa3a962fcab0256fc7a9bc3eb191c70714d3f0f4 SHA-256: 43928a1b519f688df8902151e1ff6e5c26b2d7bf5188a88f3ff5972c96be0b24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF link farms often involves embedded JavaScript to facilitate redirection, hence the inclusion of T1059.007.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210906033202.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b054c95dcd---57238883423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.serwkom.pl/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70275461321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behagi.eus/files/galeria/files/67111516713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/20450445412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mercuresamuichaweng.com/admin/file/worunoxefef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamayeshniroo.com/shop/file/50477295624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210902063228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warungmimpishio.com/contents/files/fibavenikezudadum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/12592512863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eaf719c9e4---32809678874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eco-translation.ca/upload/editor/file/44808531409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npcbalkan.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tulanekubajomuwazenozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giprozdraw.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31880670521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niboparis.com/upload/fckeditor/file/1630594252_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espace-hotelier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xebami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocenfis.es/uploads/assets/file/jalagim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xeroxexpres.cz/userfiles/file/45643946820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalilak1.com/userfiles/file/jexizepamunoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenfremont.com/uploads/files/jopexisuvajafadegufil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d8175c3ce---lipefuxopipejaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/95784248095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5ef6da7381ae57ae437cae22c9812df/59838655293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electroagro.es/pub/files/xetivamotibivuxeluwifire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertravel.hu/_user/file/10424305288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132980b4d7b5---205194347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nulifeus.com/~nulife/userfiles/file/kanasitezebojugerojoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=original+movie+makerPDF 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_off0000eb4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB4D 10368 bytes
SHA-256: afaf5865596306f1a80e5be825d512381510ce9582c9cfbcee9c9a7ff80076bf
font_01_sfnt_off000102b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AC5 17304 bytes
SHA-256: f52922915567e0acd54c5a6187f4db61131ece889eeb72379346895b9bd732a6