Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e43dd97af2a79341…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.9 KB Created: 2021-08-14 14:02:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: efdb2df2047571ae098c05940de9707e SHA-1: c0a2233dd48bf1b4f8bec97c3ebf85085e47dacf SHA-256: e43dd97af2a7934104d02c3fe6da8d0dff92d90b29a3b182eb0524932ca3d364
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a pattern of hosting multiple external links, likely for phishing or SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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 http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/98960764756.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800d2ce1f7e---bebaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb575c185f---rebozuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f99d6d25419---30707665663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/456cfce76b3552b95acf18656bfdb8c3/fokisujanixozisagizilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migger.dk/userimages/file/272935796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlakepaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17195674239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doktor-ara.com/userfiles/files/biwususegopot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e815a34eaf6---39581213678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a7d491865---zegevodupusezolepubaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gym-rectif.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/panunejawaziwosufusina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhatuogz.com/uploadfile/file/58980016701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30b073432e5658569b5ac41fa579f976/3830035766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/revopobev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6271124013017cae81d92727c1c28a64/merunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/76358175951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/jejatamememugeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6605bbf1cc---52814561175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/jixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vovujidomodusube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dycelife.com/userfiles/file/27425876045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccebedf2b734f516699787912f0367de/7803923998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f64e9f874a5---18404148831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/pujudefosaserawejew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16e1962586---7540700817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=integraci%C3%B3n+por+fracciones+parciales+ejercicios+resueltosPDF 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_off000102fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B0D 19068 bytes
SHA-256: 72b3b2ea67bcd4f91d7b8e32bafb7393b18b09a3782319516e650436291dd9d2
font_02_sfnt_off00014ca8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CA8 10972 bytes
SHA-256: b967ca364540086f056116cf668637a3cf2e72db289d7a8aa2f7fffc358e5c91