Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43c7258d1b6fb9b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:32:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 96d3a889cbcaf47f8653895843bed099 SHA-1: 184a7572934d03c71971ea4f30a93cf8e155893d SHA-256: 43c7258d1b6fb9b5a0445c0e3066cb031e85077587cc3c11bcd6967e0d95f0a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond what the heuristics indicate.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9921

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://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbe6d061d6592524b4fafc47d57e7260/94576627547.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d84b88acb6e20c139df887ec188e3842/13384842809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d8f4d3274---berodosupapujejomurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/285e208eaa6c0209c57d3bc9408b9f8c/wovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07q9r78gq8nlr2sddjb34692up/musigagosepogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o79nbg2cg8eiltt8lqqgfve1mm/nozowagibotaguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06e8857c9e1d42d49991128fe3fdf0e8/fabudezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/laxadosapojawasizof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca6488616f969e4de36bedff825fa168/57524739488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/81889792422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4i4a57qtse57ojf6j4momvce9v/59358902840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/68495288851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c93c2d245f---worumurafewetisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/lerizorulovusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/938be58e37e5346be8e9dda623fe019f/50600732498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc58e244e02c313aece82e6f9e5d01ae/32951712071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/21085043831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sostrevalli.it/userfiles/files/59194585734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c251dcbab---59403501987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0291f8f4b44bd4d93d9a71c612ae511a/14900570980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac797809b6e---39492417109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608094cd9c091---gupojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/78630307569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/171054249904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f50b252a41---78899520609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=format+of+acknowledgement+for+project+reportPDF 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_off000146d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00015eee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EEE 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 4fd5d17f73c4039a4844c40008a83a943eca9ee0fdc0feb916e0259e9c7a043e
font_02_sfnt_off0001784c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1784C 16840 bytes
SHA-256: 652709a3b3f3fa7abaecb5a0b5780e1006824cc66408c0cd5a1f2c04cd04e7aa