Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 435d44cee4a27eb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 16:29:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: de97bfdca42a155cb091c81284c3bab0 SHA-1: 9b6bf88855554e56d987345b2e73e41a6abe81f3 SHA-256: 435d44cee4a27eb1289aed59e890d5f0417c4cf29109cae2a79a53165ece65b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. These links are likely used to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://globalbizkorea.com/userData/board/file/19189970500.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadenugixebodidaxorat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hdurmuslar.com/images_upload/files/85927262185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/52201357564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushi6.com/uploads/files/16458826992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/17366972154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/jabemabolobevuzevibabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtijsr.com/userfiles/file/66199157272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613040a21ee78---kovowidob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-zlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kufojukanefogifolopemomib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d10e71458d---nitutuvijeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinebadmintonacademy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipopedebavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanasulcikova.cz/userfiles/84819173818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testplanet.nl/uploads/files/4697468308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antitumor.org/filespath/files/20210911021807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/35782704876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoprofile.ru/userfiles/file/40748136575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ed22895be0---55736171660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoga-privates.com/yoga-privates/file/miwesufexapugowofipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135211d02a2b---buluzamakuwepexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97185278100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/kofawuwibitigiwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shieldtech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taleferututapixom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9a32cf9303eaceaa1cb94352454d0d3/82491278100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalestetic.com/userfiles/file/86584849032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=highest+gdp+in+the+world+2020PDF 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_off0000e9e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101FA 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 31cfef4acf4b85c0c19d0ab8b88ca3d6548a036e8bbfd1170273d3655f17910b
font_02_sfnt_off00012fc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FC5 10828 bytes
SHA-256: f7c06d3f03f5419edc946b59fb7fac3fa92f7cd22525167c6b26af2e4f356a87