Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3445e44ca4390ae2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-08-18 20:34:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fa9ce60de65809d68e97028123451e30 SHA-1: 0fa7797270ed4d476697ed490c0d1653d47b3f55 SHA-256: 3445e44ca4390ae2cd8f7ebc735d5965179398be378db12832cd9c696b99cde9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or contains malicious content. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data, limiting further analysis of the specific exploit mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a723ac77390---nimapodegaziwum.pdf
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3e30bfa43dbd7add813be3c6b8e2ec9/64806051140.pdf
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/13882506025.pdf
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3aadbacec5---86929052111.pdf
    • http://theofficefurniturestore.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67325365599.pdf
    • https://kebecelectrique.com/upload/editor/file/lenoxu.pdf
    • http://kag.fr/userfiles/file/30327311403.pdf
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a534576fdd8d78b4873a4966ac1add0/felozanilafoviriruk.pdf
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/xizolonutasemowinusesofe.pdf
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721e3aa6ddb---likaz.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbead020e7---sodaponalefami.pdf
    • http://szsahsh.com/uploads/files/xejiwubutoxeket.pdf
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/59737972729.pdf
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea0f0a6629---pewuwilivowajewodu.pdf
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/kolaxiluj.pdf
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/kawodikipakemabu.pdf
    • http://ty-int.com/files/files/87781354914.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3ntnib633eengj59d0gb0fit0/96700359216.pdf
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/60831210854.pdf
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/tegizitakojovikanema.pdf
    • http://reklama-v-sochi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68968534301.pdf
    • http://gsemilia.it/userfiles/files/nilufupolivu.pdf
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/bupajobomomurudoxana.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+statically+determinate+and+indeterminate+beam
    • https://cakamuzejs.riga.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/semopaselaxejagikaz.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_off0000faaf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAAF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000112c1.bin
a3a6330cba04d3ea3c56a41ec81522496df198a559283ce755a9253e4e02688e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112C1 16300 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013d37.bin
be86dcb9bbd26da2e83a42b25b7805b9bfe432871178e7f26e45815906957f02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D37 10760 bytes