Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 743561cb7f14d102…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.2 KB Created: 2021-07-18 19:55:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 43f92b5262c97491f760d260868706e9 SHA-1: 26d7e502b49937dbe40d653fcf4a57860af63e89 SHA-256: 743561cb7f14d10236c3b6215a4145749766be6556d9926f799645e559e7e619
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document's purpose appears to be to lure users to malicious sites by leveraging compromised web infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11149584745.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a70d48aa3f---wefevin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bcf5a79822d24525e971ccceaeed3b2/tamijugerokewusana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indobaliart.com/sitefiles/file/67592602836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/9345020895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4663787af4c1cbfcc77d3839ed188eda/10169415453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/85173758429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/fijuwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muabannhagiare.net/images/uploads/files/64386143011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/7011824124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bb82a6be6---xuxelowosafuxivukisud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qytbearing.com/upfile/file/50497697337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c747b01de2---girukonipidufejokazalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04943ff0d7e9104fcef6475a1610a948/mojejunavalosobepitamorej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nappsa.org/userfiles/file/76058514067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rk2kf7591ranccgba4c93qst67/26675948485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e88790cab683f7e041065334832d67d8/61525930498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/108352b0053ffbde86d3ebd46b79ba8f/wopesefebezoxoxarebumopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/25434584212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a879ea9bc2---95590183261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5cb5a9efc9be68795012df82df52b15/toxesosomifiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bce9c2e76---76457114846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b6adaa7015b20248e257791e55703d7/jimivaxisogosuzovuluzazum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/wototofunogenerame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=42+kg+in+poundsPDF 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_off0001b15d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B15D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001c96f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C96F 18788 bytes
SHA-256: ab41da063ca98dba4c7b9ce4706a6895998ef1e24831444b8db423e167b991cb
font_02_sfnt_off0001fad6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FAD6 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 510436577c06bed3c039a97336bde427df32b046545b7b68ac9a1b38d7f3a573