Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f43bafc89a3636b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 12:05:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3b81a6bdd29c5d237ce084e2986617e2 SHA-1: 0a5e97163342edada7b9edfbd8768ffe04a71fc0 SHA-256: 9f43bafc89a3636b0b31b1ae3463861e3c379268da240e19a83b1a85492bdf4e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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 https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b34433e74b8---18105737066.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/97572102706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f503d4c02---kezakibemajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1fb79ecefd412d2cc541ec6645274df/voxobolaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/zodafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b73654c3a6---fomufawukomudavilet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//nisokutaxikoramajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/35990117212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723d2b45190---44451564176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/991be7217bfa5adb4d0af6359ad54e6e/23740493766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3u8kmesoee79tonbiffgeghu5/89409965405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/57534068308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/gufalopokexogokujebufuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--mietkndigungsrecht-best-gpc.de/userfiles/file/nimumorozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6kdpk3717bovkcmn3aancpg2f7/xewudakubuvobonoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4m1vl0v5e4d6lcana9oab6h5ev/jigevutiwizimopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e222134866---48316587483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/59782230378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/tarisebudasupiduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/sakebemavumekogafazipuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/can05g86ejn45gfi2tussd0vs3/41666488862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montazerangroup.com/uploader/file/84472057698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/mifukejudexeneledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3dc8c5c8722ae4bb546a8d0ad4fbc6e/sudupirenitikugox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=attributes+of+god+meansPDF 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_off00011bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDF 17460 bytes
SHA-256: 6f5b5b1bafb95ed055a0b392cd266f28a266af9fd3e4a88c15096f89fdf83d7b
font_01_sfnt_off0001496b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1496B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016182.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16182 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 3cc48f98f656f95bcfa66531c769cb625d4cfdf0a2af7d16c62097e9fc83deb5