Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d43168b727de8db7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:31:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8099c579b228a49d116195902c75f52e SHA-1: 1ccde4357f8787ddadfd32d6b8c612ad36291494 SHA-256: d43168b727de8db7633cfa93edb01ca6bd3b8e10e8bddf8d7c27d4094dbc3173
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier flagged it with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb11c4edab---76517943766.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hvpeds.com/upload/contents/file/70465545302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b99f3c4a9---72505395189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c53b4655a---ludevuledelikafawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9pq5gi9qad3vvf4qdmrsb0jqk1/38084303103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/bireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/febagijegekawur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9f4c67eb7---98358593727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c502dcfe1---51889045512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/8908006189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824c8d60e64---lomaditafanofif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da790a8944---pinir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17f197b268---59669322173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b7313e8074e846199049e0fbd2d3f67/69640222773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae769181821---91577106272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/pozadudezutuwumivam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/ragagojodate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgestone-ice-cruiser-7000.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lowizemipuwejasuvosuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/dajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/538e75e3de269ee552d04c6352050a80/lojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40b593b64f6953a665393f1f64354f08/98199276684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motacademy.it/file/50802452687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bb327f1bd---bopokorokigifawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d375b3fda47765d782483f112e9be131/gixazogonubijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexusinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/zujulodorales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=guadeloupe+to+dominicaPDF 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_off0000dd44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f556.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF556 17776 bytes
SHA-256: fabeee5b785f88db0ec0faacb05366653209dd88acc188d93716e8a0bfa0278e
font_02_sfnt_off000123f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F9 10544 bytes
SHA-256: b1874a4fcf05e04faf6d65e37624a9e038544c63830cdd8d8852c0eebf64930c