Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43b02c9053e50455…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:45:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: dd2e2346c4f6eea6bfbc8267c8ce1bc4 SHA-1: 8d234426157f4975add1d85ed3c0ad560127209a SHA-256: 43b02c9053e504554a5a32d5f5f7403d035b8ddfa690897ff166f23f4b818091
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1218 Signed Binary Proxy Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or link farms. The heuristic 'SE_SECURITY_BYPASS' indicates the document attempts to instruct the user to disable security software, a common tactic in phishing and malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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=download+wrestlers+fire+pro+ps4 PDF link annotation
    • http://zs-g.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30742727816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nixuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menokatea.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pulogozupebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161001db33b5f7---zuriseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ruat8j9s6tp3dofrll76qvp9ec/98723828042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/keremoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/21311054632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saletime.gr/admin/fckfiles/file/fapirumilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/posep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-2.de/images/daten/file/jinifogofilakogidar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48448000766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/67008565940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d01cb83f30---37843797025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869a7d65d65---31770567475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/53556321241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jewfri.kr/files/image/files/ziwajenalokaditati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/pujez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshopgroup.com/userfiles/files/jisofepunemilob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d80e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD80E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f025.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF025 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 17b1211aa640be25c3c8184ec19a7de9b8cb4ed292d79aeb88740de8d22fa490
font_02_sfnt_off000108be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108BE 19024 bytes
SHA-256: 5f3f2f7287a887b00e0cdf7573dde911a267666e6b7a988fa19f790b0d3d075c