Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 244d3e1eacfc54ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:24:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a5d2730933be6a090c3fddb9ad92a513 SHA-1: 57e4e0add2dcee54abdba6b5c5398dd85a3efda7 SHA-256: 244d3e1eacfc54eda8f56b1b03ef34e18f669f86e645c082c71cc250abccdc29
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+do+mundo+bra%C3%A7o+robotico PDF link annotation
    • https://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/75536336394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/34954678173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bo4p5q6hqatjha80j4b1e4rj06/35774537234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/10984706751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613297682b419---pezegixobatuwamuzevajago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607207ad7f86a---zanikamirizesapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skidubravy.sk/spravca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86860855604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3e2e81ca9ca2fb850c9b50846acd2bd/luputozuxasajakogozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b7cbb706b3b3dfb9a424bde71cf86c6/gufokogavagixakijimoximuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e05237541---13458420636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26c8f9304ee1c2e87ec5833e3b262764/lekaluzodedimopone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegneriarossi.it/userfiles/files/zegibenin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/82160151469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltimescare.com/attachment/files/37484027781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydiction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55372112337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/40799416242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepsima.biz/files/file/duzulebebejamolupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b344028eed5499c5dfe2d640fb91fc4/20195445590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/xasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/965432d4d6909d1cf6b6a171c9956c94/66901122651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobsandhi.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/xibijolomivejafavaxepan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca5c4360a6---besumesozog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7t98f533pqp7h6dv42ato34aq5/99137155965.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_off0000d892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD892 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A4 18556 bytes
SHA-256: 614fb8bf9826379093fe78e8586055418c22b8f525adefd1d91c5dbeaf885819
font_02_sfnt_off0001215b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1215B 10664 bytes
SHA-256: e0601492fee2834d3a8d541f3164bdcb4b4d334bd9f515a01b62585ab860c94b