Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43f042330991967d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:06:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: f935b56c3e1330c26b4e48e9fa894d1b SHA-1: ba1bbbb6939d05ee2bedb1d9a9a1b047d3de9e6f SHA-256: 43f042330991967d965399e5f9c29d2aabb821450017f7fb8dd1fe2e58785934
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, while numerous, do not appear to contain executable content directly, but rather serve as redirection points.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6831b20ef---tuzino.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59764b490c---puwarujebosedofiwegekutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prvugkh.ru/uploads/files/ratemulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830d1b28365---rarujumufiresurudisalame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/dapowedovuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6d63508affc39f8a6153322ab0894a1/wopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamslakeband.org/userfiles/file/bokizewivurujexofibikani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/14318257407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dba7e09d7---bovixul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b95d0bb7ccfb44536498a184de8dcef/sanulikamikigizewugira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947309b0e65---dapupesuluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61b3cb6880---mibelogukododefaxovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooobelkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71206460101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltop1976.com/clients/24685/File/zisaponitemadokenebiduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/nanaxenuzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/lewajalufebezaturu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/51128424394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://needychild.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73117637205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db2d07b8e5c506eb71ac049012a59499/96159981816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtuozi.ru/sites/all/sites/virtuozi.ru/files/roguromoveniwogusixugumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/purarilodusebadip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-insurance-broker.de/downloads/40601062242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/14686386932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/xeruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pulpotomia+y+pulpectomia+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_off0000dcd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4EC 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 756e1e7341adfe19b7c44837e7b62f2be001314267312f810c88cb5a670f95a2
font_02_sfnt_off00010d4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D4A 17748 bytes
SHA-256: 3f75d9f3cde9fc6ce890adcd7c7879a744de68abd6492b35d396b76d45560e18