Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43d31de7e72c62f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.6 KB Created: 2021-08-06 20:03:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: e05390142f8d712f5e42d7d1eaf51604 SHA-1: a3a38ff603537e26214d13a7013aa7ee532099fd SHA-256: 43d31de7e72c62f6e01c5c1ffcc555acae6e7a98fb904eb5dbf14e2a09344376
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/jemeselafi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c3ee55b871ee25422c296e231e00f79/zumuzojuvakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740cd19eb91---bipuniruvatonoxedonugemuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f77c6a45e4a8e00326f4a2dc9207d19/gojivugufuwajeput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/15791426375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/xemoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/30418388872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://attackworkoutprogram.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuxuragowinirezitabutez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/wovitemefuvuvunexagote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbaf000b02---5077641993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/okq1d5airc2fa1oem3td8mda60/kiwexad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607686c0b9354---7165880883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c03f92065b745f103c0ddaa1aa17bfb/bobitipomoxeluzibaboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85c0881c25---17848557011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dakapol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f37f91f4baec6e462d32191e2da3e2a/98238494574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gloriouz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65078880661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/20925037032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlygiaylynhua.com/upload/files/xavixukumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl1971.com/clients/5/51/517263f0417f9379c67e6eba0e0bdfe8/File/bapasupejesogunijixusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95f62c1d9bf7782714d4609cb5161595/19310513202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/71012784330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pr-jam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51225909642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilbertems.com/videos/file/dekopora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=information+technology+for+management+11th+edition+ebookPDF 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_off0001262f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1262F 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 296c451f51eb7dc23093b52e8970b6f25fc30dc7579f7393cc8d7f954d1d58f2
font_01_sfnt_off00013fb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000157c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157C6 18644 bytes
SHA-256: e82245a0d5153ffdb40d6f5081c320d21b0d523fd1d694f1a500b20407381761