Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43e98da552f28185…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:48:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7e853eb4aa53251c9ba925b5bf075aa5 SHA-1: c03bc50a010abdf34ad0ed9b69417255ac811822 SHA-256: 43e98da552f281854af84326a9bcf12124a611560ccc338631317f94fa6496ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a link farm strongly suggests an attempt to lure victims to external sites for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://bruceleevideos.org/images/file/73516847273.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/lemabesujoxolopetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/89010047814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5fe36594c7---zafemax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinieurope.ch/userfiles/files/waluxovuwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a9a25003b---mogezidarodukozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winso.tw/userfiles/file/tutonozegamesoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bb94b34dd4a601c704183e1cec8350d/92736675996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bccdf907088---67004497775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valenciamaids.com/userfiles/files/44448991198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-ex.net/userfiles/file/43860455010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e96fd05c92---29499672973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/xibarelalebunuruworidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thokhoavietnam.com/upload/files/xufaxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/47444291371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c82203f97---keloxuwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aczv.fr/userfiles/file/12550464563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/vezawujopawodasuzuvas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.roadsafetyrental.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zojesofita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa49f39d4cdaeff6247016a66ae28ead/66473962948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/50818666554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/bevisirulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbondcorten.com/attachment/file/309665b4aaefb93d57fe2ec2abc7c305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--mgbaf4adbs1bd2i.net/upload/ckfinder/files/kivutofopaxibovekom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kontiko.com/ktkweb3/images/upload/files/33377222870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=automata+theory+languages+and+computation+3rd+edition+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_off0000c0aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0AA 17652 bytes
SHA-256: d146b7763f1c17124e63a2d47dcf2c15f1e5c57a399cb8e90d55fbbbfc599b91
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE89 11436 bytes
SHA-256: 0c2bf3fcd7e8ff35f96ce5391e5b39fc374197ea747b1ea7946ebbe573befa8c
font_02_sfnt_off00010935.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10935 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1