Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43c542e92a9a75f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:01:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bd5e3e7fe37a0ea42c495e96bd0ddcfd SHA-1: fabc23ba6722d54bff3b8a3cb239f3306c396f49 SHA-256: 43c542e92a9a75f9967604cbb7e28247ec3b98dd8755549923902315c8274ed1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories hosting other PDFs. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/95309261738.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa5273849a7f046ee65c5f4fc3e65e8a/29919916831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607526c151e33---xakuzenefozevefojelaluka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/90633736716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dobski.pl/userfiles/file/zazipezekebimopabukede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbrvg1teluh65adeo7dep4mbdh/95752965025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylphs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zulumimiruse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b935e88af75---turalirero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11432e35a9---nufuzapidunirumir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b894601b607c6cdca5f3ac3e162410a/womagujowibim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/91953010503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e091e00cb0---budubopunewevumudatoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyklo-wellness-penzion-palice.cz/content/84794227403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aynadakikemalizm.com/resimler/files/jefamakozisotunaralifex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/85769500786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/xejalakukafilupululuvapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/banarij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/guwavafuluvuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guitarenko.fr/img/files/sulomekutuxuxugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/61348897006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/xomopabikewazulaniruradi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/384ord4hirkrpea9hscf68900b/37139727038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/848a72116653bd5095e9099b31bffea8/jidenavub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romento.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/ferorusudapixalewilar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/vuwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ntu.edu.sg/hIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=ntu+singapore+campus+map+pdfPDF 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_off0000e011.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE011 18664 bytes
SHA-256: c4fab3435fe9610c87f495400484465f3913e1a21cee504801b20030ce390d36
font_01_sfnt_off000110eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110EB 10996 bytes
SHA-256: ed0c510d7d01fede8ae15e07ed8f54fcab2112abb8a072715272b005045145bc
font_02_sfnt_off00012a42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1