Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2044732d3ce5f112…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:56:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 01dc71cfd900a2978a94768f95940a9c SHA-1: 6ae1ccc95a3fa8f051c591eeecb55f807ec6872b SHA-256: 2044732d3ce5f1126af05f8ac99c5eebadca39652fb1d5366df222d4bc63527d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and the nature of the hosting suggest an attempt to obfuscate the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://dakmoto.cz/obrazky/file/wedikulibajoraj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bosch-service-center.ru/uploads/files/86057397596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourjamesfamilyhistory.com/clients/1/14/146a9f92d0a296c7c29e793db058bb30/File/68415366674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/gajitifuzubofobuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/damaxemuvojinijuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb1afaa78a---23819714996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/jesovuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eabbb6f6da---9917355692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6d7c3a530861144f511413b8a7803a3/22332072502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///56460450496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/91958911081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--lenachatka-57b.pl/uploaded/file/wugulakozipaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g99tq80ig76l9a4cjbl85q1b8f/xodoruforividuvojejoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1c1c7f647---6821436189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096027c716aa---50831399530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115230da549e---49832297247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1963.com/clients/7/75/758a827d59fb1c2827eec60421ffdc22/File/93646095133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/datuvoxasotivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43efbd2bdb0156886057de8aef66fc53/gamovegutujerarakax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariomariani.it/userfiles/files/gubomesufazamobogizonopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab8126e708---96150004719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7679d13926---91133493734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s7b8h00gc0q57j6sv891bi6ld2/82067918209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dptc1vrksqbnnbg6pjkkfs627/wotiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/78875013227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=baofeng+radio+manual+programmingPDF 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_off0000dd64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD64 10728 bytes
SHA-256: c5a7df695bcf5656caf858d18e163be6c5f2c0224821d1dade4f9b2a2552e7ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C1 18280 bytes
SHA-256: 5bad54216b6610b9e3599d7d1da0a064cda96f088e19b950a38937f1c0157c1e
font_02_sfnt_off000124fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1