Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43a4b89f0f7d9059…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 18:28:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 44b8f28c4d3a464f0090d0b20eb8d614 SHA-1: 5e28e7066b62df27d74dec5fcae624d04d688cee SHA-256: 43a4b89f0f7d905964321b8fb3941e549f3ea8254e76365f1a0d48705d5c0be0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within form upload plugins. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content, such as phishing pages or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac407e7a605---56496725832.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b9cbe14b761d19d3dd4cf2e3f4fd6ee/43707284710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803ac0b6b33---1388638359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncabhsa.com/clients/875427/File/22959741085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210614200137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835a26f1572---pepezofaxerapak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/160327352876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7llc1md6s3bt8hcsnvj86jd260/luzipidikag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/mipetezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/47027924400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b2ddb5e96bb2876277a9eb93f83a47f/3118168099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2119beca7c06ac9cfcea20da2c6029a5/misumabatosonafeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd6cb2fce8---zuxutozek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57b1a46f99---kibipevasinulogakinigim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/kodipuxizokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ff74472a7---6636175137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/kegon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/41998333082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//bodogigek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/jajofudamijavejuwatox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/51134794535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5f74824b720f9840bc24ead7fca9bd5/51630095303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southport1969.com/clients/861680/File/bunarunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=news+writing+rulesPDF 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_off0000eb15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB15 10164 bytes
SHA-256: 1395105f77433142f82d6682424d7227cdd1ceceea515567dfa4e788f3da73d4
font_01_sfnt_off00010204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10204 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A16 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 10f19fe286cf63bfacf175aabd6f0015f2ca15233a59f897452ca1e9694982a0