Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 943ef9dc35c47c99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 11:18:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ccab8f630aaa6e2f46eab70c4367ef62 SHA-1: 5aca73f8bbb05c4969df85a9550e598ce1ac13d4 SHA-256: 943ef9dc35c47c99f885200d6f58cce609cd4594884f7280a56384776ee01166
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content hosted on these compromised sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/75234438633.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9pg1c0n6vp283rjc4vr1buq9v6/81826696066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748e185d0d4---90518656355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6e42c2b2583e73816de156325e4ba44/44929954467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba384f193f6---27461033935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607467053762c---73311404366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8gad5usnd8ig6umum1dgqtnbet/lagufimipave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085083ddf0ad---22690460263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/76613482000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--rssx31a7tec6p.com/upload/userfiles/files/20210626134514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f083eaf8f8---93439788004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c887e677e93490a981d60bcc7be133e/45310600881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/vomowofagelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b471eff60---sudesawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/binesozoxikasurenojawib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfeac7ceb0a---jixivanexizub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44e8abe8f2ad8744ccbac686f24786fb/lijarejikekaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/54034083783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9h799bv36q9regb3kb9uv0llj/lezobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents//files/35868258544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/nawenetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9e922b79f6ea714bf1796064d74f4aa/rotasokodukesetosevowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1afed840f9f7c7bbb7528d6d595d2a0a/kuzuzenowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainbowcaterers.in/userfiles/file/24261710674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myboydfamily.com/clients/7/7f/7f513a2250c12de81a70a6735749c289/File/21673077460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=oxidation+of+a+tertiary+alcoholPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fad3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAD3 17524 bytes
SHA-256: be807f4041644b739cb303234f75a1323566df25768730f7bd393163231704de
font_01_sfnt_off000128ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128AB 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 37ffdfd4df4642938cfd3c2347c557f1b10db7e42601c9eefd331414b75705c0
font_02_sfnt_off00014102.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14102 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00015913.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15913 16108 bytes
SHA-256: a31e141fb2917ac6221449cb8c95e700680d048453672ad8ad57cd6853c5c53b