Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43fc93cdb247c29d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 15:57:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: fc6f37dfd47a35064902613ad2dd8d21 SHA-1: ecaa82870cc3eaa6391346b0c7cdc3ce8ab7f358 SHA-256: 43fc93cdb247c29d82a21d545744b70d867970e551e3767f8f3e6b70b4363462
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by 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 0.9977

Heuristics 5

  • 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://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7303f5249980e7de9b07375b4a1afadc/60080198696.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/duk9483hh105fm4p2j5sqhuk8a/83324804957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea7518bd4f---wasotinigovelobixisufavop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89e8b17461---magogukodojoxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/69793311108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b18c356968---sixewexalevupegipinimenux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mmalappeenranta.com/tiedostot/files/35605117049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r733502vrqccig0osfutas4qet/zalupuroravebofukebiseto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/54025793182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68bc106d46---83266589751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/kalufevimilofif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/47406283255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/sozekisukoponokapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/96572297695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nogozuselipitaxuwidota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushichoice.com/uploads/files/dutimigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/lafategedufoporoxibok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/24995428875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/kokipewot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/3323582229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67c4bd19b1---21288231149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacausedeslivres.com/userfiles/file/86105914500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/zotozagovada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=worksheet+%2380+overlapping+congruent+triangles+keyPDF 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_off0000d8f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F4 16892 bytes
SHA-256: d2f32f0b52ecbb927ce017c7a809729f13d67099c1ccdc003b79a9cf963403e0
font_01_sfnt_off000104a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A0 9880 bytes
SHA-256: bcabd7aed3b583857527d5581a1ac118e2a5b2892463f89345199d6c20af1555
font_02_sfnt_off00011a91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1