Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f43f1353156384c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 14:51:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 483f36dda3b2c8387bccf4d0e8603de7 SHA-1: 15773435305ec734fa6e95127147f510158442f9 SHA-256: f43f1353156384c6f99be99f8cd35d9ce4d7cc79ce5090c0ce0f89201e9bb7c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of a link farm on potentially untrusted hosting, suggesting a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=classroom+timer+fun+timers PDF link annotation
    • http://siamsnail.com/media/userfiles/files/63839619371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoekidsworld.com/userfiles/file/narilibuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winkeleninzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/kuvesimuwelodonebusojite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/18504243925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/pedibuxilatarokodutisowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sissonne.hu/editor_up/40298360660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/65823541208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifeteacher.tw/uploads/files/202109031157539362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tst7lnonpr3sigck2pf5fk946q/56948349346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/jeroderosukupewof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://managhantasala.net/mailuserfiles/file/noxokabufejutalovuret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5015583592f4a5a006b72ad4e453b9ff/fejojuwetew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansonseatery.com/uploads/files/xuzewirapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dd-eng.com/files/files/vagupekewuguroji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iasvn.org/Images_upload/files/31658708276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saga.diamonds/uploads/ckfinder/files/96554785066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161397ac298297---86781525809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9f21b8670---96374771859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/10944233628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kar360.com/resimler/files/zodegeden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/pajerovupewezoxilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aap0abfiql8h.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puwujenagaguzud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gma.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bujowimubulokiwuwadufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/82295364327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/64357967021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b47c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB47C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC8E 15592 bytes
SHA-256: 74f11f77656e2a97736ca15197aef0c19eb0072e26cf03c63259cb0ffe28785c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF460 10504 bytes
SHA-256: db6ff33bc27c873611ee5ab2c2afed4d4a87edd620536d07959f683686a5fa75