Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43eb78e2013b521b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.4 KB Created: 2021-06-19 08:01:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 2b9373ce3d24e9cb7467b0b34f1aa638 SHA-1: d184926e85d069899e0581a40cbd5c65e832d267 SHA-256: 43eb78e2013b521b1519655f68e3bb49140b196c5365221e15ae990541944e25
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 0.9998

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://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73790f006b93b50f6448a7e9388c59d2/75248428609.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8006eaee7b9756143734a7986ee11768/4184592505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesemlak.com/test/images/uploads/files/resoxutomagozug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xafawolab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098610ab17a6---famixetalakafakaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984b17f1f91---gejajirafabunepomuneni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/zetewisilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jljdivgg6ga1g5g3kcsn7r110/vukigipuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/16459797691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ad8b3f801---nugiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/vetivava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098da2ed0b44---54824831316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54243f38da8ed7fd26e41782de5e62da/suxikuzufepudalofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/dejozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-noah.com/uploadfile/file/pisopenavifokomodizax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/woluporeluxugurawonosuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=aai+hai+jab+se+tu+zindagi+mp3PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b6dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6DC 5436 bytes
SHA-256: c308491122bbd278c58c38fd3ae4f2dc431c4f9a416717b6ecf4a4dbbb238f22
font_01_sfnt_off0000c932.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC932 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 224e299e463ec9840c697561e0b5ac09d52aac9e801c81649eda5d29206e722f
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE68 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f