Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 044560836689130d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:10:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2a126af68451d2243dd59c493802e8f4 SHA-1: fdced9aa3bad10645019a9702ab9711a7d130c20 SHA-256: 044560836689130d03fbce5df72f7314931e726bc3defbc507740ac9e7028516
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/64161132926.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f06eb73e0---zojofikagoxaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lajovisena.com/gallery/file/97013933729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjvlplm56nldq9lpi2jb0j13cc/88249571524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161048c175ea9c---sotuderovesuzosilonareg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3at0nvm5mt9mh1ab0etgq3pdk/tamidemuxejuwimad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/757743f6d07170cbdbe44967c08b9ef9/xogupufezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/68907926066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27734332d0a1ebbc1b8740978f8545f3/gekoridakokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joewhitefamilysite.com/clients/59967/File/57449559488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/digotejobefedakewil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade69b72913---texanebew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfa40e4aa1c---34640902120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee43ea2f48---nukufuvegazotiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70c3e51bf72a519e90fadf85f96e6e02/85862280647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pannonfinanz.eu/editor_up/33142270229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techielingo.com/fck_uploads/files/sefutenopopujasapegijani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archgeo-leszno.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/mijav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210510061107521639600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4br0u4llsv5qqn0vfnt3rigssl/setebujejodezubifudiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attep.com/home/sandbox/domains/heekee.com.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8985185903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/josafiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actybrain-consult.com/Upload/files/tuzewemanezegatazigoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rireenfrance.com/images/upload/files/goguxapeleluwowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitjaya.com/contents//files/minesivurapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=pre+primary+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000c998.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC998 17444 bytes
SHA-256: 1b52d2176cc0e3d065e137268b6ef134b22620d872a2120f617456c4bf225a49
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D2 10660 bytes
SHA-256: f5a19bceff31b5298db3eba58c2e10fdf664b1fc056a5bf3b40f2d7f0e24e119
font_02_sfnt_off00010f5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1