Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 441226cef9631c42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 20:57:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b89ba24eaed6d08feb6c0113792940a2 SHA-1: da5bed678b68bdbc96288108856fe93ad337d7e3 SHA-256: 441226cef9631c42990b12b1e9f02bd17fdec52291d7f911986bae743aecd8b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files or conduct phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links on compromised infrastructure is a significant indicator of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+manual+of+clinical+perfusion+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860c5380b4e---81077412816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/liwajulizirejewagufixodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ece83dcd3e1b58080c740576d716a0b2/43480999977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efb6a4581a---gexalajolufozekepewebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc258f176b---kexudufavarulefurewer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/77248832648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764c8eca943---30056449361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8fdcec0e1---23208598661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a8ce64867956d97db03a382c67f6730/22355465418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210606083627428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8aef37ea1c---12553446933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/godajepavekujerefesir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3u5334umd82vq2on75q791gu8s/futajejizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddgasul.com/userfiles/file/gejevipexawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607411f902929---80157760932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fec30101b65bb8f6721e9cbc8c04eae7/16161460633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e82756e8fc38dc198e0ac9838b91928/99162725544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a056f7c5c1---36664751053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd2fa5ebbe---wedekifowuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycolaborativo.com/uploads/files/4187123666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/96699953476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d266c2a243---92787218503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c33aa88429b---40791010804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/sowimaruwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7696a7b9c---61261622187.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_off0000e791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE791 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 4151ec7c3f44eb99dfda29ef8202a63792514cbff9c02408c496c33af5488b36
font_01_sfnt_off000114c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C2 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 21bee32df8741cad2012fa3e1a16c4550dcc2b72d7359a8f5d4f11df416f7286
font_02_sfnt_off00012de8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1