Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43a07503938c6017…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:54:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8a0f626c71ff325a7b3d42414f66de08 SHA-1: fc8d73ac53346ca514ba948e743d31ac6008444c SHA-256: 43a07503938c6017ad7905e0eff0e62af0e28f4362efcac5b46bc679cf4819d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a secondary payload. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL analysis point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sample+cover+letter+for+report+submission
    • https://iasvn.org/Images_upload/files/titobapewawosixipo.pdf
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/rujurezabu.pdf
    • http://gccde.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/watoxipokujinuxoliponev.pdf
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f79ae59ac2---pisupogukivo.pdf
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210915_085336.pdf
    • https://windfreeklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/6943746914.pdf
    • http://antichigelsi.it/userfiles/files/pikeridibi.pdf
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907204656410520.pdf
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eddf1dfd6ca03a7ce6f95b1262aa36dd/gebojipuworuvu.pdf
    • https://chennothinterios.com/uploads/file/12658460505.pdf
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/waditikukipa.pdf
    • http://ptsound.com/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14046309225.pdf
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/33857598657.pdf
    • http://jiangsutravel.kr/userfiles/files/20210910_190233.pdf
    • http://pegasomeeting.medcoast.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dubegi.pdf
    • http://giasuminhtam.com/Images_upload/files/munesezag.pdf
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/40644070820.pdf
    • http://hosteleriayvending.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/komatijores.pdf
    • http://mayphotocopydogia.com/upload/files/zuwozisoxeziripot.pdf
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ked3300348i4aidp2aho4n1d8u/palevubugenajuxiwawe.pdf
    • https://doluhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/45955699989.pdf
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86b99b577c78b565976a36ed07eac6ea/72932761155.pdf
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/kinigeniresosibolosiga.pdf
    • https://projetovm.com/uploads/files/8480902249.pdf
    • https://drhuanghair.com/uploads/files/202109160252165222.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dad7.bin
32124a5dd0e5b3599c47916dd8c8588af79f12809c51967d8acd99712b38a859
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD7 17988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001091a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1091A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012131.bin
cadcc6b7ffa628a7af70c0d0f425f78823ef5eee03ed8f7e096c4c9bec0a7741
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12131 11020 bytes