Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43b332c39da3cd23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-18 23:48:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: fc107e727216b71a8ef44cd0fd26bc0a SHA-1: 621e95d1a2e58b27997ee3974493412dcd48dfcc SHA-256: 43b332c39da3cd234abb14111632a43b30204f8d8caf54fa5543305cc5cf9600
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe4205d33c---gavekorofitapopin.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a302dc389cc---modulajarexofawebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2116dd9f5f---63035117708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://singer-island-condos.com/userfiles/files/foboxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/texivilawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c73be83198---60120725623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2860b99803370a84777dfc827f3f6e1/77692587914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/xuposa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ae9306a64---81240669156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0b031a1e3a5b746b3a6bd9c220b149/vudadifepesulubafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c04db74e6---zibutajijozigiguvemaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da7315e657---52154740795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f80683d0a7---94496920414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-8/20210508204924827275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d82e1052c0506167b2c7e9a5eb286724/jetonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=8+ball+pool+pc+windows+7PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF17 2828 bytes
SHA-256: 5fccc4b93669808a911be510fa35354615011d06cae0a9a774c0ef2e9a75b465
font_01_sfnt_off0000e921.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE921 4972 bytes
SHA-256: 661d70a0cf860ffe5a9d4b1e0bdfb014c265ffee3c445dd7d882d3798b02f51f
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA07 17164 bytes
SHA-256: 12925d834e8c41f8f407d274e1e38c9a32cb939e1cffa77dd9873c8a33fcea0e
font_03_sfnt_off00012eff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EFF 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 40668b3897dd7596b627abe3d739f0c5315a2fc81823c9e61901c9325b8d4684
font_04_sfnt_off000143c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143C5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3