Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d44f61919bf04df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-06-20 17:45:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 42809da12936a5638ca648a1c8855afb SHA-1: a792ae649bb53118f6db26f577dd2596e38f117b SHA-256: 0d44f61919bf04dfead7641d347666812112193c6e98fcb35bf8822c98f68048
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, many of which are hosting other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or facilitate phishing attacks. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bbce5bfec---matedatebu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/57801525129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/nivelipevikewitati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/45962750438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb4381720a---81742283506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/dikokevivuwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2c28253c1---zunujes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608289fd9e0da---pexexukitugolinaken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607585c4a4cb7---ponusexametori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/4743657707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3e62d1d8b91917644f5f0d23f9d6d86/4328017575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roeveragri.ac.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f3c8874e953f4e87f94eacf0fb37507/25870571527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/37252355900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tf333bo2bkcskv03o51ttff7u3/71528184275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/102083319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b4a160a97f7c4ad444031bcda603e39/40003255563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724a17e6d6c---tages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b3c5944315c42082216ef621b58d389/sawamolulugamafud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=concepts+of+modern+physics+beiser+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8AA 5300 bytes
SHA-256: 875307ddb036158766160c547fd39d04c9aaeb13966bb36fafd2b638442660cd
font_01_sfnt_off00010a86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A86 18188 bytes
SHA-256: 4b689ed8e510b8254ead55c390ba05fe1d5050c2d334559de57ac6666bfe9089
font_02_sfnt_off00013d17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D17 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 5de44fd0cec97c1f50f501675949209b84d7f405bc6fcd38b2a3ace8eb686ddd