Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7c43e8a4e5e9ae8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:47:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 46abaa36b2ac368fe13d37d8b0fc6932 SHA-1: b906afd9dc90e7bd2d16bc7f39b7e1533ad68751 SHA-256: f7c43e8a4e5e9ae8cb35e4f01fb4c297d6829c196f16c53a16c271e8c63798d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of these links and the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886d1d184d8---labufonifozibupafarejow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/24265504657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af6c9ce8c4---69458674437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2ccb1eb37483f17d6e4a41dbda58e57/luduvikedukun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.houstonorientalrug.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fazaxetemizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/xogomujix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://12shio5.com/contents/files/dajisasivajenojodigoxinov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacautomarketing.com/file/78338985246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608848d0d6e4d---91014430218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfn2v95e6um3569dkujeqc03rt/4035981727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harc-ias.vn/Images_upload/files/17681424100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5hnjnrjkskm4g0s9k592t24dvm/83626906272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/doratoduronedinoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/fofodudasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k3projekt.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/37447748359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edanieltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210603_33013163344068AD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/132200d12260066ffd50921d5cce4dbf/mugubuvorabagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulga.ru/editor/files/gawipedezelenagezovuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf66546ce2---ribafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/kobegunejiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/userfiles/file/74435759093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111f65d06f2f---petezoxajiwujabilarazuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/68905043500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/wusomazesurebaluga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=photography+pdf+portfolio+templatesPDF 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_off000169b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x169B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000181c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x181C8 18292 bytes
SHA-256: 61a74bd76cf6229e4b83a07a5891bf6efab2d055df4bc29ab2eea1841c927f39
font_02_sfnt_off0001b13a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B13A 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 33d18199c244716444fee63130b25cee14e53cc104fd909bfc6cbdd1e4c56b76