Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43a52d6ef3d7969c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:14:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 170c5bcb77af15b1923879ad17bb8682 SHA-1: 7eee666b1456257b3f71d30374b993050a4b5aef SHA-256: 43a52d6ef3d7969c79e55941d5333ea8c6861d75b1c4025b0a50dbfa9e5ee0ad
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF employs an image-only lure, a common phishing tactic to obscure malicious links. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document may be instructing the user to open a password-protected archive, a technique used to bypass initial security scans.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://superazs.ru/images/news/file/10703764227.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b7e388f40891098a49f0c7bdbef14ee/17023819295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aygroupmuh.com/image/files/legijekofojulidanererewof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/3511637579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbuilder.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74234576674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.web-globus.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nabofoviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/82619745921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradzo-ep.com/uploads/files/nukipiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjanzee.nl/file/14304901118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714d663f3d6---71469428236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210621235826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bc827677cf3e0fde540a6fc7afd1888/relakodeloxawojogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e089f91e57e064042742701406b7ad3/nuwubazaxukufujiwoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtntoproyalshihtzus.com/clients/4/42/42f4769cb4f2467af64fea76c5682520/File/37357128395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/73424079890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snsi.jp/image/news_file/diwekarak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f6b7b6e6e---vixufiziwasafejipavadom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecc855edaa---64929723149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210626150043_730698889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80454f01b4---wuseradoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/618f34a766348a841988b41e91e0088a/nomawimivilew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e90c2fcbc---lanizigas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mpressivelabels.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37189785058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b842e9317ac---nilowesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devdoc.netIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+boost+c%2B%2B+libraries+free+pdfPDF 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_off0000b2e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2E6 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 1259250fe141b5bd7721daf29c8db1ef3cf2391aab832b4a030c526a6b3b5379
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB66 13168 bytes
SHA-256: ef0d4d7ed65cc203f996292f3fc7094bdc51c8cf482dd5a996039343bed0e66b
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1