Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d43e71699c2dbb59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 10:00:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 689a41efbf4286bf457b86b73e552ddd SHA-1: 9b5280f7c5b0995ce35b813e733ba42bd3fc3f15 SHA-256: d43e71699c2dbb59a68f4d1e04053b152fa7d26695ec4f96278f9a87b13263b9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/vovulajipezagave.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/93294095541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/xunilixadipibuvisejora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/nowubiwaxevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93457098737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/542cqv7d19h8qbkap3td6srogc/90949243130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89478f4475ac311f07fe3b5260a6d4f8/50243759312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a861509190d---96191765843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf0640954cbf607f8fe5e79464915251/25814931940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silverlabpupsforsale.com/userfiles/files/75029213761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/dorubotudutotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607442176ff9f---202901579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b12b917746---dimonisijegekowolazemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f52e061a3cd80374070faa295acfa540/12438678272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/ratisogazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3125a14e6b---levetelog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705f86c7314---18779340803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/deripamirinamutogugetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ht13ttdd0t02mujkivottu6rpo/55833525047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=ugc+net+2019+paper+1+questions+with+answersPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/481ecb55ae09966c377c2e2f296e1d51/48353853677.pdfIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eefd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEFD 16788 bytes
SHA-256: 09e3782c4c0cc42defdffb14a28ed284a343326731c731c49ae20ed0f20c14df
font_01_sfnt_off00011ab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB4 11408 bytes
SHA-256: dcf0405e75f2cc03b6593c0b90aba0e8b46f7dbb7fe9b95f6539742cb9061382
font_02_sfnt_off00013577.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13577 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1