Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a43fe77ebc6f7d4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:54:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3edeb035681bdfb6457e43ea211267b8 SHA-1: 8364c20b91b4a5a8d673ed9192cc6213c1f5868f SHA-256: a43fe77ebc6f7d4aac022a58509f60a994c36687c2aed4e66af87154b0037504
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to domains that appear to be compromised or disposable, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics indicate the PDF is a link farm on disposable hosting and points to compromised CMS upload storage. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, reinforcing the phishing and potential malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://alstar.uz/images/shared/file/14862321848.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/xuvabika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/2747272752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608925cfeb340---67786840820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/59279631223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2111abfe6---90749259011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kuwaitpolyurethane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12908722122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pozitron-s.ru/userfiles/file/16546920882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ginzaoakland.com/uploads/files/jifupadebokanaparuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87760cbba1dab8419141f6b157ed6182/38641305192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7eb5d38372---vubesimebazanenifuwuturen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2b7a5765b56334eec017dc9393de93e/xemiborowusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/pebep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a464260abf3---jusubinafes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/43156640009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bee8db5aa644cc359f8e098699c77d9/82618560578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feriaalainversa.com/uploaded/files/lexobixoduridunazoruzibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lm8vmumnpk5du956r1gi61fp5/51278565079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/83734642920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igescanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53689144640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9870543867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldway.jp/upload/board/file/ratijulilugazoxesiderij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9232b4875---begalifes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60589102a690be91e5a5f55ec54efc62/43646869039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=gsp+600+manualPDF 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_off0000d33f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD33F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB56 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 21e983be245904da32b321b9eb9c77e39956cc624445be4b9bd2584aadfda895
font_02_sfnt_off00010280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10280 19704 bytes
SHA-256: b27975e49a17ff340a6930c1f8134c51b1badcfadba8ac0c36c01c7b4a3865ea