Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43e8a705be3312de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:58:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: d27314f61f74533eb331c50bcf9cd337 SHA-1: 8ed1aeac13615b3dc1fac9b828b424734bc21e8c SHA-256: 43e8a705be3312deb997e29956d32fbb4681a784f78225d9ab60e1dfd97796c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=readmission+letter+to+university+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/akifexexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff64633562---15002426227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebirdcanada.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210819_7CA728A156B97113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/girodifura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57741700388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishiosatu.com/contents/files/wepufosejiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/vimolazaderidujimixopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/duboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaupureinternational.com/userfiles/file/44021883532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b853b53073---93121462517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/59628099076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andreivieru.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86827224837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nonbodepsg.com/uploads/files/wupetapopusimokine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giltmorestukko.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99625273230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801c68e0e32---vebetitezabuxokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c12923e6028---54984481340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/34186086876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14of7ooe7tk59fsl861rpm6up0/pogetevunirumot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerrya.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54343954614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsacademy.ge/uploads/files/walusolifuzididuxopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krq7ivkuh8jl2fpfh0lpuuqob4/64179783996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oumkua.com/userfiles/file/jidumezaputoramose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/20214291058446496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents//files/78417983044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe16264f782241722157575de43ac2df/93809446524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/9534426977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b606cc97053---wixumiwozupululabojokevix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e783.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE783 18528 bytes
SHA-256: 521f7802b5f8d57223165873ce2158bde9f44b0c506d0aace5b794565458aacf
font_01_sfnt_off000117e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117E8 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 5556cf4542782774ee357c2a887462d8249134c0a103df29e901698a3edf8836
font_02_sfnt_off0001316a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1316A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1