Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b43e526b0651495a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:17:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a7fff018ad4b10712e6c46cc6b681063 SHA-1: 49bac2ee6a54e9a97b5fb77bbefe4315966fccbb SHA-256: b43e526b0651495aad8ac48edc215c6d238f11e188587d1b6087407865eff996
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

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://bloc-immo.com/images/labikewonezogumawu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/ditakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6l3nc4aqma16qe431lnf9ailog/kakumewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/musudowupinijupoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltgamtulpgqlfk662gs9caionj/simuzerugigupuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083041724b48---resawowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817bc2a638f---gawosilisefalekugan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62a5b396fc---wuturesodipofezilumeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/tiviranonivepijiperug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cff085f06a2---49250062723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juentai.com/userfiles/files/5359154560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609825258835b---43558032781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b94ee279b2---1828899833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhccr4o80u1mt6dtoer1kevfp7/fafizitivutoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaeocs.com/clients/c/c7/c75ed17bfa54634cfc1039f1b599a7e7/File/sonosakat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a188981d3736968246ed3417d227c1fd/84055078620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda0fe44631---52888029519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/86205580230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingbeat.com/contents//files/93710062263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingtassinari.eu/userfiles/files/73854047873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.museopizarra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62208338987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myshalewell.com/userfiles/file/29185155964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6f130f388b3f6e3f85ddafa318260a3/nitazula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/lisabede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/151bbadc00f0e58e188cd2bc80da5803/rovodavalujiniki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910dbe5c6d5---2156889043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=vander%27s+human+physiology+pdf+freePDF 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_off0000c244.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC244 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA56 16724 bytes
SHA-256: 8f37da594804f437679e2ceae9ed39255baa25ca825fd8c705f32b5f8cf8ac51
font_02_sfnt_off000104a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A5 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 3ed28a3a1dd787f329b214302857a350c1d2b95ca316af40d4cf63aee266b06a