Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43b07e2908a042f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 10:35:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bcf5151dadbf74e313cf50c8191ca9f3 SHA-1: d432fef87a378be18f83ec1c107900f93027e914 SHA-256: 43b07e2908a042f2809eb034e57f59b90ed2c9d69707f1b7c4c35d145143a742
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. This suggests the document is designed as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=st+mary%27s+medical+commons PDF link annotation
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bec94c7f1---91775155283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a243c2767db---48097443371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/bikejosipasupudoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907e54378c2---folagok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799ef1a8d93---dukepun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiangsutravel.kr/userfiles/files/20210607_200346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088cf44528c3---juwedofugapudugigedipoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210624214713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d63637362e---gofabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48e9dba95b82ebc8d0f800d0ff31ac1e/texobowavikitabete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ajnp9shteuct2elbvll7fdqqa5/wexovudademefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mglmnu64i379mk7au8setkvv81/64551381077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://music-group-store.com/upload/files/56919733184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinawin-consult.com/userfiles/97331596791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/xabibewomebadefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38e4e98c22---pujebositebenevosajux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/49436878358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xoblates.com/clients/e/e0/e08cfb93fb97b00c28394d0532709dc9/File/konodivefupomofumulumote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jdjcnc.com/upfolder/e/files/20210627051921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuzixajuwuwazofakam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092be171c91e---gavuvomofomatunoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6821b0a4732d4366215a2a032703761d/34435089706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/5285995395.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_off0000ca9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA9D 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 0cee061344b4ab1c55d25ba5f05e33931ec9488690037521763d3de790965f33
font_01_sfnt_off0000e35a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE35A 16384 bytes
SHA-256: 7ec1f640c1309d82abc3a90a71b5d8c3273268be03da97a85f61dfaca06006f6
font_02_sfnt_off00010d8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1