Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 943dceb0c0c3405a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 15:19:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2266a469a8e0704ff9a3c9f79bc6a9fe SHA-1: 816591122c851a1961eebf0daaa99bf0b415147a SHA-256: 943dceb0c0c3405a33bdd4fa06c079df4a09778d65776a2ed7d4d07427e78299
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of these links suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign, where users are lured to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://sowa-architekci.pl/userfiles/files/52710550726.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ad6cd2d0c2bb7bc3b64d5da039e1f8f/wopusumaxatopirar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowiik.pl/userfiles/file/28624180075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/13908219903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2692012138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/22803753874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021062813555780554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbc4220fe58---11432995610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajambary.com/userfiles/file/73585475915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2811378393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111af7048ab4---19999267302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bruvedebp1pt1dkmb6kpgktr6s/bibimajapadoridoneku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97qbcvonkvitcgeejnl66cvrpm/wefoxilosewat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608487438ecb2---vijarixufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/87376451777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/zifejonakogodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb4e7791613a50dd4d45211eaca182f7/24855002095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/pezuledaxuzejake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a74e5ce6ac---varusofaroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dadesigning.com/daduserfiles/files/zupajasiguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1bb79cc2da3900ea063434bb8b5d3bf/geboliveligodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8989ec2ccc---sefaporu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marymo.ru/uploads/files/fexiviwiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/2909208434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=malta+attractions+map+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_off0000f895.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF895 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110AC 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 6b64892e7981c0aad2485745249f529a93f5204b62a81b61b3c65d6ccb75faa9
font_02_sfnt_off000128fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128FA 18296 bytes
SHA-256: a98578c5b5a8a7cb8daa3ebdc12781a819b71f973b6cba1363a77604c8cd24a8