Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f43a39b54c5d4e39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-04 02:10:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: 98d3eb39e2c0d21019259d5cf8e07c63 SHA-1: 40fc13f4362288c185dd48f190b608de682dcbff SHA-256: f43a39b54c5d4e3919a270d5bfbae5449882c91f29a52199f62ba6bf31100ef8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as a lure to download further malicious content, such as the PDF itself which is hosted on an IP address.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fdfa8f9e2---fasexaluga.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kbb3km4sitd9c3nuro41f1tm59/73049175584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/nujev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowerowaszkola.pl/imgturysta/files/51212522531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4495a6a16---lawixigutama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/56492911545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativitagh.com/pevron/www/img/file/57893994874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085bde104c94---xaxidipakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/sifaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--pssa17sw71b.tw/upimages/files/85763492385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/siwifelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3edfc8354b9d957622127263bf1c3b1f/63453157069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76102ff3d9ca41e6aa38a1e0373c19f5/vetukokunixufilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87e1d65e84---dijefegir.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c20137975e9---37131624757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaimano.it/file/lalerewise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d30fe4a17d---lekifilad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607182b7137f1---fipisaxagawug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db834e313d---tedukavusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssaisarang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kejofefiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/60321878600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avvocatoboretti.it/file/32461291764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daimarconstrucciones.com/images/admin/file/fikafulasiwivebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topaldanang.com/uploads/image/files/tepuzezedikuxubozejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ejemplos+de+investigaci%C3%B3n+explicativa+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E1 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 4361ea4d8c81b4b18a8787cf0b39a0e06aa721a71c676c1bd8c5cce059fac9f6
font_02_sfnt_off00011be3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BE3 17812 bytes
SHA-256: 61600b62bd67a7aac26ba9053732c51caed32d5cfda869565f83a8ddd6e5a5da