Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 144dc7e8ea1a651e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:50:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e62558af9d5e9d3c040489e04ad72b0d SHA-1: 11dfee11645410cb802dbafbd475d8086fb75ab2 SHA-256: 144dc7e8ea1a651e90745225c154b88f73069d614efcf652ba952f5609eb6e70
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to potentially compromised websites. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via spearphishing. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9959

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kabel+deutschland+k%C3%BCndigung+umzug+vorlage+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ueros.fr/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71218514350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongyuemedia.com/filespath/files/20210905110422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/titonozuvezifigok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feldbach-tourismus.at/files/21669470139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/tasexilotobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jager-ig.tw/up_photo/file/zeluzopevamutibakavojosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuyothuyluc.vn/webroot/img/files/66922545193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210513/file/labisuvazarinewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://facades-et-traditions.com/actualites/file/dusepejeguwokawazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurad.eu/files/file/24841290559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moestuinwebshop.nl/userfiles/file/5172506422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-elektrostal.ru/upload_picture/file/22978128683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fan-consultants.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuluwowagazixaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26e9cd41cfab1ce266b0a31d441a633a/nebowolimotupigegasegub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee0cac571e6---95110794942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tangente-mag.com/img/file/41789117085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j82ctg82n8nielvapcv8a6a137/xixitubutifojupuvenomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diakmelo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mimodavukuxigaduvafeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e2c5ea1fd5da3eb083598ee20c4ba7e/xenixifodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kla9bc2191l45nvvluspujn15d/76817602948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreejians.com/userfiles/file/15924645487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82c15e3f5fad88471af926855de0eda6/67776174934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0rockt2l3ffbmq8nh78222rj43/linukofemepidup.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_off0000b1d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1D6 15616 bytes
SHA-256: 42a44f5ec1f36a7ac34c800e415befbd899a19aac859bfac43a41faa0fe4c09b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d89a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD89A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B1 11708 bytes
SHA-256: 83f1719fe4c140a3b4308d6ea914b602ea0bdad485b1999ef2a8a9455629d2ed