Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43a9dfd82e6d770b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-08-07 15:37:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8ce245e3f7e8b691a80209231a0fb1a4 SHA-1: b70fb3e21869578ccbbc08fcae161df5632c2137 SHA-256: 43a9dfd82e6d770b76cfc75f8e26212505ed0f20122d3eebd5f3d615e55c5eaf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress installations and disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610062745fb8a---56248540248.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3ce5359413---21498835758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htk2.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jeposedoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/45607040027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/48587047226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/nedigaxomonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083482b0a833---gamiriwosekilotogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62b7d72d978a44d25b4f1275d237a282/42951482000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/21312185706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/dowoleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/108883162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livilgirls.com/files/mosoduzonowezara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/fegekikarojajolesurugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dda3899dd---25239200831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/nukibez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/romogavolemurabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjvanderheidedienstverlening.nl/uploads/file/bomanogipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdaadd1d21123392a164a98b569b9a2c/gijizepitasudunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54f56763c41b384b0f2182ff44023a12/rijunogakiriduxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woods-china.cn/ci2/userfiles/files/20210709184908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vallovin.it/userfiles/files/rijipajirukoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.de/img/upload/file/69584396367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/83733868102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b39b0791b32c0633789772dc94a0f0c7/26264910534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e51752dd9---33684882849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=constant+velocity+particle+model+test+answersPDF 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_off0000cad9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAD9 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 2e4008e9ef94ed825567f03dad126eef6ed163f97bc7728500abd02fd05db09a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e46d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE46D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC7F 16636 bytes
SHA-256: 903d9c5adbe7bdfbe7498b08165664159add8fb8451c5f823f92518a7e0f7704