Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 044e390b4fd1cab1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-08-30 10:45:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 941f2218688503e90138be58169b49e0 SHA-1: 0a522fdfe90917bff5d5e9f70966f5b80f89fe9f SHA-256: 044e390b4fd1cab1c3d2bd1e7b9f315dd06875ac69d9cfc6ae68e6278dc011fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious PDF files suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://www.profiemg.cz/upload/ck/files/71709372817.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kccmaul.com/files/files/bikibev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f15v9nmn3k964mlmnhrb4r49hv/diziwaxusugudawigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69549d8feabd3a12971a86f629a624cc/43577568263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pratiklinik.com/img/userfiles/files/someruli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/59424591994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84126241020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5bb9657845---jadimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f02525d5d50---towurarajopazufimitogezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kf27ol51pdfdt15dv5boek5n2b/kanuxuxetopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majorpropertygroup.com/userfiles/files/20479745662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210627095228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/pobafosinim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dca65a134e2ddeea8f4596803bc951f/lovafenab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlaskvartir.ua/data/uploads/files/97731114296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cb8ab309b---watexunedobunuzubadiboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/651c6118da130b75170ee9554d5d610a/zatosexorubusul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glovimex.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/vifomosawojotupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9021cbf656---karegiterozeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucphatloc.com/upload/files/29927171929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/34c7f83fa612a13a5a451941468bfe87.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d4a6d820b41726224742329bd199405/47902199877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cebrigantina.com/025-CEB/images-editor/file/34255542880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2effe8ab4042df46b3054cb6e12eb87d/depikisukulimomuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=tommy+with+edie+falcoPDF 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_off0000dc06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC06 17512 bytes
SHA-256: bfa945a7ee7a861b7aa21379f5255ff605e641cba0ee646676391acd2fba8f94
font_01_sfnt_off00010922.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10922 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012139.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12139 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 03a38091df86cd3209dd104193e2de88912e633ed0e88072c4a7e5848d01655a