Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a43f8ea8125f17b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:05:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 46faafba3b3911aa723b264c1d1d31d7 SHA-1: 55d3cb585f0def57c1556ee49f40c328bc848e7b SHA-256: a43f8ea8125f17b94e2ef264a0510a1fd703dd0521c0a2329d81c280f05f57c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards malicious URL redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b0a39175066693733e08b2013164b81/budumowowit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/878103515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfhotel.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39524854548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e22c193dfeaf9fa8834206dcc5f1f12f/mojifiwumid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a8be6a31b---15200075710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinhadventure.com/uploads/file/loxeruwamuzuwajizela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/kalozasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/76887739568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/nigibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/fidovemasakekutemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/5456135004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirmamedia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98398567131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/42765478759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdacab81b3---dudibupujawodevadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/31665211764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070afc640b0b---rubakixoderavokuxika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realloans.com/clients/73966/File/pesale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///46863637800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71100972c93f84cf7b3b44505c69dd3d/soluwidofoganizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202106030633299588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usdcp.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/89578871523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fcf8072be06188f3c7cb5958741bccf/28572900584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6bc7e773ce---sepibapalezolimefolas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1e1db4d43b---wuxesevijawijelod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=online+dating+for+dummies+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_off000108a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A5 17692 bytes
SHA-256: 26a0ef0478fc44b53e34b670153e58e453c822630ca40cc8183cdeeb1250fc2c
font_01_sfnt_off000136d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136D3 10968 bytes
SHA-256: c71296ffd5414b1774edb188f66b044da4acbb91b3a30627a38770eb777a8b9a
font_02_sfnt_off0001501b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1501B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1