Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b43493f33354ca12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

147.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 12:49:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 74bc5947e5d113fb0a7c9bc7c71cefbd SHA-1: 81a7c709ed3ed99cb2a618f1fa256d9cb28f541d SHA-256: b43493f33354ca12f2ae90f677bb418252dd3c5e2a0ebd1b7242d260a1944a93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites. The PDF structure itself appears to be exploited, as indicated by the 'PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL' heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9708

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=colloquial+chinese+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/dafiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2787df9cb9748b8e387a34862123727/ketolobinozetomomeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/ferelarevap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/domomobuzerabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/71060311667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2ee56c949faf004f31025b35050221b/sowimevekafezopurakebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/112aa4bc214e48cee8236e31007ce4de/kepidukawuluta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aglogistics-bo.net/userfiles/file/buwosarewakesibawipavusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muahohangnhat.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/58114987615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58cf85055e00fec2bc26e10e91118c23/takin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/kupabexutuzifexukizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindentudor.hu/userfiles/file/xabuxawizobemavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/154706739060bd151f668c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88a439bff9b54cd041a1cff512b46615/rokamivunezokomunamafefus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/deminugazexame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769acfc077d---jakesobavurizuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/wukuzikulokalejerus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/vuzilirajarezikizipavini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb9cb56d8b---wezinetatimuzokanato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be55de0edc3---93072657342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2b98d99373---36897586757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092de5d7e6d9---pefexenizusutajeweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b4b627d9522635cbed50c47fa19c022/rijunamudivoketomite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/91888327064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/nerubov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.routledge.com/booIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000126bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013ecd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ECD 27812 bytes
SHA-256: aba0a72aaf2737d878685c9e7786c834b6d654ec660dc44398a56c5f80d1141c
font_02_sfnt_off0001823b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1823B 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 202431a0e084ef56e7d56b653b3f6f4497d1f6fe968513be0bfffcabacf6b48f
font_03_sfnt_off00019ac6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19AC6 64064 bytes
SHA-256: 52caf07859dae5aedd9523f33572c8be6fd350ed1c0ac69f96978637b1a72b37