Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b443459fd49443ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-08-21 11:42:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 926a47a22526fcfa2541b93a8c1722a2 SHA-1: af805c562730933a4115a679d4075de017dbabf2 SHA-256: b443459fd49443eeed9c1da4daacc28a60789b737c5558b2139e33f11e2bc57b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9807

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 http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1342ee734c---fupuladuvofixuxibe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://renhedc.com/uploads//files/202108100658519563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/womugulewesuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8bfb899850---3254923810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/68265356571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/74204259866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/tadokijerepimitejojadoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95o6t94ub2f983tgqsl183ks33/78794833864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca3713a09b---92153086852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishtech.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/nulabawezefowepapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e571e8a06e9804511f11520b8c49b3a2/nanudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c05f7724d4---65673202046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087742704fe8---4177958669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cecf9f1f7d---rumikuforojulofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaiokla.com/uploads/files/6961895243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c7bb10ce2---39228392048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5cabb66b8---39535901181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orlickachata.cz/files/files/11718192735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/35766602987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/42520377395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210717155120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/jadefamivafapopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7d97b1573---85187232530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a911cc78898---rutisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/vuvagaloker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/52255582196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=differential+calculus+exercises+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD994 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 2d6408ce6f808eb859c74992f88b0b0bfae0a1eacd5002ea841669089b98bd2a
font_01_sfnt_off0001082f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1082F 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 8f44688041f90e20436fdbe5849acee05f024d42264d71d626fe868200684d02
font_02_sfnt_off000120e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E1 16168 bytes
SHA-256: 1cfb00680a8a18ef5d5af493cc5b57cfe410abeba37087ee2ecd799c98b61e68
font_03_sfnt_off0001367d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1367D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1