Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43d5877b476f3e02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:17:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: e8164c5e19db71d4fc1fc70b54e8c260 SHA-1: 8a18eef84dad35d7e489cc66fa018ff95fad36a5 SHA-256: 43d5877b476f3e02700fcb01aa7b5d42d1959f561e419d50c3eabe839651262e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an invoice-themed lure. 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 0.9965

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://aljuboori.com/userfiles/files/37560223779.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71f29e2a37---50241973763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/10298169267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/59178470578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://systemsbiology.at/uploads/assets/file/70336745038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/83253016382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/710dba12603feed16ea32bcce641c7fc/50473092548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb194733c4a---pejulojavaganisaditujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superlitefan.com/uploads/files/nujududawerorapanen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/96028153124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61d413896cb79c9690caaa014aed0e77/86626408940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3819593983a6b399905081f967768347/95478141302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4a73df380---95915703436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c6ae6088fa65ada9777d0be400ceb10/jekav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/napipitebavisunodoniber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/87516790665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9894d14e440ef88c325b0ab782f20459/masufusulanexes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitpoint.tw/userfiles/file/xamalama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xufudutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qpkf1ae792q480fl8n20rhev3/nuragavexilalotelef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b21d8b1ab8f---55849263977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03f601bc19121fc188a0301462944a3d/44856936094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=invoice+template+nz+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_off0000bb02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB02 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 3c392467b3207990257f38f9c84ed777d9a3435acb6e43c98f8d9a737bfd98dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE446 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 54d91638fcbc6308f5a109f08170ba654ffdcdfdfdba68b9bd0e19b481382899
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1