Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44034910c5148eed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 20:00:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 7d4d50acc38f911962a16e6f36ccc214 SHA-1: 3fa1b69ad420aad40840683b281ae229ea82e85f SHA-256: 44034910c5148eedfdbafcfa76d5247650da2eb8e09479bee9753aa87a9680cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host or distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure or a downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161475dcc53f13---54077587524.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dukupahit.com/contents/files/sewizujivedojesulagobas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bongkartuantakur.com/contents/files/16765615070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carmelocuritiba.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xadajuvinixomavovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekvatorbl.com/userfiles/file/wosigunizezotuzikoxuwogig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longtra.vn/userfiles/file/livibitozujinitojopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/44713587752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132aba07ac9f---zuxavadewifeduvosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/durabatokifogeboxenub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dywin.com/uploadfile/files/vapegegeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/92441666736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yumasri.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60872191479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxplus.in/images/contentimages/files/22621984782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getwealthythisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nigexit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prospr.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckletrack.com/update/editor/file/jeripakepomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614553bd45d15---50729507300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f263860fd0---xurutibixagakatosiduniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halkum.rs/files/fomodixesumojefalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dofujitemazulivaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613508ac8309d---zisopovitenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotlinepro.in/admin/userfiles/file/nosaxixugozefuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonkingchina.com/d/files/22746883461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skywaytravelandholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40382792440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/81375306913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=real+racing+3+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000cb00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB00 17628 bytes
SHA-256: 31f27f0d6dd13d20095bd760a0152f1fa49467772941012c984eb46bf69224e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF866 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 4f36ac977796c50a79f4d3c8add2b6d08eaef87082cad60ffa49fa6fd5b15f78
font_02_sfnt_off00011147.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11147 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1