Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43fe408921025799…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:58:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8230525e0176921e8620da2fe2edb281 SHA-1: 1925117a8d6d16b2a1bde21b4048d1a9781c3c75 SHA-256: 43fe4089210257990e6bcc525c0110d920c9cfee51b6953f0cf576af649299df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host or distribute malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5eef008bf---56831794360.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pyramidplaster.com/file_media/file_image/file/66493202214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/17407587220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/romapinovulerewomixiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/zonebuwudunemizafabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b13734430f5---96173192062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dfe0e94d761de535da4e541f43b37ee/birisexirekugamaduri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phunhai.net/upload/files/feraxegupokukuxamisaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgsdp07irbfbtetnkfkvodurpq/48061546495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circuitvietnamcambodge.com/hinhanh/file/zudejizaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resurrection-life.net/userfiles/files/kikirevap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/wizalavot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutstudio.it/userfiles/file/45861898928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af94acc96fa---10646820600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e22534f0216---wapakilomevazukerafukiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/60289938524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetamblj.si/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taxazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd3b227d0c05742e6f5544ef98aef738/zaviwivexilob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a87cab8e3b8ee9634cc1f001f11524fb/66630048254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacartedesign.de/userfiles/file/88742216710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datev.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuginejurasuxulagorimufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5320068ef8---77686589344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunde-katzen.at/soubory/biniwuzutibilonet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/jevowoviwojujeporif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=answers+to+a+sudoku+puzzlePDF 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_off0000f009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF009 10612 bytes
SHA-256: d2cf6c5b2d0033d4be37f286f168330ffd2e9a62603c920f95f2975527cb5167
font_01_sfnt_off00010896.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10896 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120A8 18492 bytes
SHA-256: 75250184f956080c865e3fb88c6446f1fb37a22e45c9ad70570d1f10a9421bcb