Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 443b5f7c3168e2fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:05:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a23405c1d9b874a8aebf36d608d27253 SHA-1: 175d86688e7b28169e5f120576eec8b58783e70a SHA-256: 443b5f7c3168e2fbac5240fd607e2a29dbd9854b555ee44b354f746fe5eeb1d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the numerous embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hs8k5oov9bd6sdu0dt46mrqj0/60554407398.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nozawagowizakurunovup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2df09462dffdf972f64ddabc70a60697/jaxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072abee172a0---kuvekulivotor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/repexuloxiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/22009404441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1b6c5e320---65993063902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9tn62ugmcpu6t0s9r6sf38m6qr/51985032819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/46293159649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hollandunitedreunion.com/clients/5/52/52f3fdf721cdccceb566e47094f1d9de/File/23924471988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e84e04ddb85a552c3d82bfb32e154c1b/vepivopiloven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmresearch.org/userfiles/files/8715759744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a01fdeb7cc---91646262887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce4d1ede8e---8345372443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/58358630385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608065c4a51d2---dedelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casalindasbakery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60740947700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb930e76ce0c8eed1859a33b4fef61c0/88248815671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coverline.ro/userfiles/file/12635473040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2da9dba9a7---4717982810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/dosufuvirupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ef50b58fc---20609965669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea7ffa4bf4---dugizido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/25234270693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwpokebar.com/uploads/files/vazezigiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ssc+stenographer+preparation+books+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_off0000df88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f79a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF79A 17328 bytes
SHA-256: 0e9d5e4051bed3dba2eeb0319855fe69ad681213e7b0d6332af9ae281cb10ba5
font_02_sfnt_off0001243e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1243E 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 0d16a6f04b725c3e3f3b395d273a432115e33bdac4500899fcd5d44fbfc8a774