Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 244fe93b5940d8c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 09:48:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 23f774b6af59726bd528c3ae9dc4321e SHA-1: c437eaa289065a6842a84a6916a88a3953ff8f06 SHA-256: 244fe93b5940d8c4f7405e22cb01865dc38f0baa732e1ce7336986379707b53c
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 WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS uploads points to a phishing or exploit delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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=after+effects+subscription
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f901b2eaa---16980635962.pdf
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609659f22bcb3---97156891771.pdf
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb58d66675e5358b60254cf1e29f86aa/xebit.pdf
    • http://recrute.fr/files/files/2470554974.pdf
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/bapuxufas.pdf
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/2597425248.pdf
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f479f7bde5---fevuxup.pdf
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5882a22be5---65877743717.pdf
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/temapebatixinoxefosurir.pdf
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940b1891601---29572743032.pdf
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/zusefavupazonoxefajav.pdf
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/28869335056.pdf
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5744115eb038098b0d5b40d8b06a3b5/58396441052.pdf
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/88611609497.pdf
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/68991329113.pdf
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5b41513ac---26994370691.pdf
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/xijivogewejemotemubepunux.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d444f565ff48bad719e25d430cf88baa/93059327420.pdf
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7926d939e02e732a50ecd04df30324c2/sigefuwuturapuwafi.pdf
    • http://humboldthighclassof79.com/clients/1/19/19f040aad945c40a0acbd79abd3dc6cb/File/58147432878.pdf
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cf03edc10---34087451956.pdf
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ef8de687eaf35da847c5b9752c209ec/99007713727.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/888614c4d665686319a88acb754cfc24/20756916210.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010a82.bin
8ed1e37b4f395648e5871f7607dd05f0d21e54f7e68255d092ecdb02041f25ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A82 10484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001224b.bin
d7befa9aa990b745e7f8952a91825a04d68060f4fc3f3ef2d47a8627f6fc6b54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1224B 16548 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014c98.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C98 16792 bytes