Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f43e86f7422f407f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:18:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 712bd236e4402bd92616705b4d2eac54 SHA-1: 384e5bb762500549194b2cc71fd5982b0fd180d5 SHA-256: f43e86f7422f407f9f3f79dd31b4845b69d03af0ba54a8e19d49d40f9a1ab38c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lead users to malicious content or further exploits. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/91454929614.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zimmerei-possert.at/70011924233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e13423521a---25006090964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatjehuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/bewenufagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/katerenowasilafumupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zogetodokeravam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/27493760000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f20338990---dipupofekapesezesekivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd0e376c6e---63754879507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1c15fcdb5e---pomelokufiliweritaraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canigrup.com/userfiles/file/wufejusekusujepulime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dahchen.tw/userfiles/files/18782745657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekmaker.com/upload/files/39497755718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef9006ffc2---37368179381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esrafisek.com/images_upload/files/64422221830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greaterdeliveranceministries1.com/clients/61527/File/ponifivafafimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mailing.crpm.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72971283030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnam-pump.com/userfiles/file/mozogudedixukixudasig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106e84a8378a---vafebozidulaxodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30ffcc7a4d5f743d5900df6333541951/50326418701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindahsatu.com/contents/files/661930326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technocom.pl/editor/file/66726752716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giritrademark.com/content_files/files/33506099105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trinityautorepairs.com/uploads/files/94822467724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b022b6666a9b19a66f07aa271e4ba62e/gezipobukibilalijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=causes+and+prevention+of+malnutrition+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_off0000d85f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD85F 17800 bytes
SHA-256: fca85c37dce9bcbbb9ae219f3999cd6d9c1d9e363ca276ee68ab3b510003c6a5
font_01_sfnt_off0001061d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1061D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E34 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 37fe9ce2d633090d398b3b817c23838774ef53cd5accf7454f9736667bb16946