Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43c1f209974b3019…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:20:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c84eb93784263856770d7072d508372a SHA-1: 56b6c43ea9df7562fae6412ad6fed6f4a598d77a SHA-256: 43c1f209974b3019fddc10d055cf1a42ef0f54f5d25c02bb1a035c2b28fc46e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed due to obfuscation, likely facilitates the redirection or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://pemaboutiquehotel.com/assets/userfiles/files/9207621733.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/xukapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740df61d16b---korifelowenikosapogixavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westmoorclassof1965.com/clients/5/52/52ec68f2b927accf75267cb07bfcc891/File/nizabaduxurowowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/57459745105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/84483412360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3e6d69529---50526096510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitedwarf.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/piradilifidopagusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehaircenter.com/upload/ckfinder/files/74311530118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://club-integra.ru/userfiles/file/23971498715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghobaoan.com/uploads/files/7580677793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809a6e170a4---76395694128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/7377920789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1491593c18---fewoderanemefaxupolinunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cbf7f221e---96569010692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ropesadventure.com/d/files/vuxuvopakolovexemesaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://besi.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/medilexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608327afba3ba---gagokifutikanosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawfirm.vn/MINH/user_files/file/631805768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0fc09e713---26543168679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/xarapenofobimopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqcons.vn/upload/files/34086724841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d83358b32e77f547a3af0499b5cf8242/pezasawevela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=population+growth+and+ecological+data+worksheet+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000e4bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4BD 17680 bytes
SHA-256: 0ad82d1acd470b6201d9eb0183290f55c462d2f08db74878dcd0318fd77a84c9
font_01_sfnt_off000112ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112EE 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 30836083da2bc72f8842f3dc058ae69215ad00e6b9a1a52c557658c9176d0e52
font_02_sfnt_off00012cf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1