Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44108e1fcb88424c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:20:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5ee1c53439f0188ac3375178bdc14d5a SHA-1: 025bbbaa677e0a3a87074f98a77e867618a16e33 SHA-256: 44108e1fcb88424c67092bd6b78594d93e41adee414db77522d3f7d910304d04
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to external resources, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810eb7f2006---92224021305.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maturitni-ples.eu/UserFiles/File/jezixefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/nogujuwefapedovalos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e3a72fb11---woneguduninubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stomerijindex.nl/images/uploads/43689413177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6d91e6b97d789713f7cf5ade9b06884/767267811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gu0m75lh7ltbi8q36bqgiu7sgh/zetogigujevifegudizuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/89310516016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/xivuvuxefefoxisuluwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eo9n1n0fdop0e2vc1d0isoka8s/nokojubeminekozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/18176600188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchofgodinjamaica.org/app/webroot/files/56696570509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellogo.in/userfiles/file///vawugodavedururolez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/volekinawutuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/sovewuvedamakalufuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/58474885193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pofenepusepopopazegom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609901be8bb1c---88715379164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080548d1e047---70391597266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084814446f2c---kimilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uzks.hr/upload/datoteke/38535382071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastervin.ru/files/file/wizototonuduxakisuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suvodasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=keeper+of+the+lost+cities+book+pdfPDF 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_off00010c23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C23 18936 bytes
SHA-256: 7d68547bcc941bbc48df9afe3822556078ec2edb612f7cbc811bddcc1e56c497
font_01_sfnt_off00013d7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D7E 10672 bytes
SHA-256: f6eb3f8c3baa974b8f8c7a77c5d0db824c25dfda11fd87affdd0d16d2d5147ba
font_02_sfnt_off000155d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1