Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f43c4900d09edd7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-10 09:59:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 71d8d22a4a29879feac62cd41ef1d1b3 SHA-1: 01f7f832b514e1664440358459850247db966d7b SHA-256: f43c4900d09edd7cdd008bb5d8404f5493088a74299da54c52d2aaf80b19cbd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to exploit users via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL targets are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d147868422---resafekonozunigurilunipa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3702188144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childconcern.in/trila/userfiles/file/laviri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1299657c6e029fa7f4f12cc101686af6/10221504042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/fatomuzurer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbbswalkforkids.com/clients/c/cf/cf8d0549bdc9bbdffca8bc0db9808b96/File/14467215699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b9af1a1c5---nimefobamaxokumepavezev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/unsikdkstfs68dtfs9miog126u/lebukinimaravuzaruvuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/kikomorijipowowedokabifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c860425d48e---vagiferizowub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediljolli.com/userfiles/files/muxibozedik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3558ba6af---3660456664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6415218282---7290248419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hprh7deahssjciniuu0t09972/66962864636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3644513c9---lozomizogadasigararum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160deeef1db742---sasob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cb39af2d475132099d347a2f14dd109/tosedujimanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/39914936695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0ba64ae4f---27703630020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qj3144s6bc17f5dl835iq1list/50527211459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/140d02c8dbd5ca89c01749910a240aaf/jerutanalodirefosipowivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce81249c06---67658661172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/sufuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://r2doodles.com/clients/4/4a/4a4ed909dcef54c1e3ec6a0ce1d29f2d/File/11256440885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=i+eat+900+calories+a+dayPDF 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_off0000eb49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB49 17132 bytes
SHA-256: fcc5733fa4d6c73b5971aec7dac1df9ab7a51ef1ab3818bb720dd5b0aa3b4e03
font_01_sfnt_off00011826.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11826 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001303d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1303D 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 7cd3a64f5717eab0d25e43a9405915174b750a0ac6ba77915edbc62b05e08145