Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e44fd577a585e1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-08-18 18:35:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 17a4c04c42287f3cafbda985ce6457e0 SHA-1: a726adfc7c81e7e924e36d694ba243d10013edc8 SHA-256: 2e44fd577a585e1b407f090f5c716f518fb95681bc8e257b3dbc232829573321
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning model indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of external URIs and IP address literals further supports its role as a distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mashed+sweet+potatoes+recipe+food+network PDF link annotation
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6353f702a300f8efb57e4bc696a5b5df/41383451272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/50640062965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lfefjopsp7pth9cvq3jekpst6/56495934935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08dd6fa2f1cdcf98d28c9750da3ccdaf/66555626744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087eb937900a---bokozapinunakirev.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bitjksncov5fo15q73hvnt1af1/14985879543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicilyontable.it/userfiles/files/33073993074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krantiservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fiwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea8ff9553c---43030559099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1623473742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straps.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18949578533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/47653252396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawabed.pl/uploads/userfiles/file/23414623159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arlington65.org/clients/880802/File/jikizabusodetosape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/fagajirulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0453eefbae---wevofulowidovorapulapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b084249b1ce---vurenofipugubijixetufenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/7127419191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthanhtam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/vibuxuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2cc662b10ef7e072b70c07d6efb634f/tavowafemulisapudujamip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730b7f3b62b---mukixit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyklo-wellness-penzion-palice.cz/content/91235240139.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_off0000f009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF009 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 6e1ee972b957f8bb8ae5eeb98a21e7c686071d019df64ff5f6b419b042eea4a5
font_01_sfnt_off00010916.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10916 17140 bytes
SHA-256: 584992365376ce7a647849f26663fa36e455a096c7430d709e1eb40765199165
font_02_sfnt_off000135fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1