Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f43d54d15850637b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-18 03:09:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 4951eb8c80d1ee45df735a774d6973a8 SHA-1: ceb12e55c0f5eb22f2a88517691499263f3fee7f SHA-256: f43d54d15850637bc60a562667c0739b13151368f0c2c5dcb14b62975553fe78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a malicious document designed to trick users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609699e884074---93027605587.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/19738179277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charugarware.com/DEVELOPMENT/charu_garware/uploaded/userfiles/file/7492328605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b632370fb88---44101668579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760882d24aa---50139896883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escuelasfutbol8.com/docs/files/25542752360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rej9d10m2n06972c0dgvjhj8c/80149818676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/janiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6d3eafcef---kusedasenujole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaaf3a4966cba211927a1a7cba2f6ee7/rifezovom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japan-railpass.info/images/blog//file/waxokegupujezutobuluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf08c58c0c---morasidowezipokatorurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f75678a997---pekifevimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762d1f03264---gadutuvuxubusipedejajane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d86e38edec---piludovibelonovaloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3c39f3b9f---nivoxiropitini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qn2fpviajlak3skuprt42feb08/raposofuvorili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=last+10+years+neet+question+papers+with+solutions+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e361.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE361 5584 bytes
SHA-256: 4f1c65838abcbd901ade53b73d01a3843b75a874f03c9c20ccf08fef4c4832df
font_01_sfnt_off0000f675.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF675 11064 bytes
SHA-256: a784d3c1e5d8c0e987d308ac95fa3aaeae06aaa686239eba1d159c4555bb46ce