Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43e700f4b96e6cef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:34:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 38dc672fee24d7772484d5c830d8c9f5 SHA-1: e877ecacd2cdb7d39f2010b9146b6098a71fbe99 SHA-256: 43e700f4b96e6cef6b0af196380ff688514546ef9ac100cdfc4504ebbc2f63cd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure victims. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/wineni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/gifuvawovedalipajuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/71218361377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanifeugur.com/image/files/68222568128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a9bade33d---vemipafalamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.info/contents/files/tetomejuzomututetoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanticcompact.org/userfiles/files/51850852193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/81907060387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78636931556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef108e76a8---fositobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windfreeklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wazog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cupanghitam.com/contents//files/30894076266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9r7q5tlmmas95gilf88mfo0gop/rivageliran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miet.hu/kepek/2409016885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kappp.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24485680190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anjilh.com/uploadfile/file///2021042904585050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d8415aa81b---nimesove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ericshartman.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bekinopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/84372937003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/5005948750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afc8ff73c5ca24c405bbcc83eef25dff/lugepujebujetaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210623_DB480E656DD06E98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb0340a67b---40611687185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.org/userfiles/file/91684746936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=tn+12th+books+pdf+2019PDF 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_off0000c1ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1AD 10720 bytes
SHA-256: bd53fe0dc27b383d85a8fa041fac758a64450500701e68495dab9137e2de2b1f
font_01_sfnt_off0000da0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA0E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f220.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF220 16708 bytes
SHA-256: 35ded724b928fcdff871345442e2c173ac38f8c015c1033d1c487e5e64020178