Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 244d42b44e05fcac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

194.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 12:14:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2da2609d9ea74d45a811161d0f2c6ec9 SHA-1: a1beb91bc57a06dd9603dba33bbaa8a6461d93be SHA-256: 244d42b44e05fcac337792e630deb9d86264233827d4ce763eea31838a4d86e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly supports this attack pattern. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure suggest it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dafccab6b---22357668456.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pinpointfeedtech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jipazizezonajin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82a9885346cb8dd9d424b262c7a3b791/gizerot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/kakajoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607371f14c8a0---60794483484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/kerevadalonekalizoguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephlillianmorrisfamily.com/clients/59960/File/87463378634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/94113311888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788a6ed51c3---55451416231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/63396952075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/lakates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhigh65.com/clients/4970/File/lizowan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb944700876---wadugixuzuzuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/libureledupejuveropev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/nagavufebivif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f57f9e073---piguwifupidapenuridu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=z750+service+manual+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://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_off000291f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x291F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0002aa0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2AA0E 11000 bytes
SHA-256: a2ba3b9213d7faf61979dfe8312ae2bc575c5f694b34f3e673c2084c74dcfb3a
font_02_sfnt_off0002c3b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2C3B5 21384 bytes
SHA-256: f0d7a25704e3020ceabb877fa9d4463d0c698bc0cd05a79f0275f21e54b668fb