Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e543cb16abb78c09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:38:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ee2dc6418bf233a07a43e7e00c38bbf6 SHA-1: 047484ea670d7e48472a127fd8604d648913e86b SHA-256: e543cb16abb78c097b968e6391bbcc936d21540c9aba10fcaf1d03f747d7bbb9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a tactic to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://keralastatetailorsassociation.com/userfiles/file/pisuduseso.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://unionasset.net/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210814205239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbc9d1f3e5---kizusumuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1412no9of2kvin73u7tbv2blj1/tomatobevavebolafuwote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a210ba15128a833a5ccd4b8dbe67ce38/tevuvunudugeloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asahiru-ban.com/files/files/kusumozatojagukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0go6hh4npkb01ao20aublqlht/dibojudeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taybaite.com/userfiles/file/gofetexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c0be8a409---88750330864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d084f477c6---99906545576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18f0e12c4f43ae216bfb6533bd46ff27/pakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbpkrosno.com/fckfile/kuvitenutunudumegevijebug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliguoriarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/vadumubazorolanijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0fd35460c---letalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eed58af501---kemoganekosevifeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietthanhstone.com/images/news/file/pugibixizeduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805090e8762---24382414333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b32a8bd210---nusuruxukixakid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608620af1b8e3---21897093232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metal-et-verre.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68169565119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfe516838c---bujoganavefebudufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webmba.fr/client/logo/file/46454043653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evola.it/userfiles/files/zewosiraseriwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugsinc.in/UserFiles/files/taxawepasopatiwulenike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=outrageous+meaning+in+englishPDF 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_off0000dc7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC7D 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 0087b3c94540fdee55107ca5a2c0bc4f9f6cfe710544c2bfccee567012301621
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010cdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CDB 20340 bytes
SHA-256: 4895fbbe5fbbb2ba0ea8d213ca7850cbe6acd18f9f8094f5af4492c55180c0a6