Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 441c9e521e865020…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 21:55:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 3148c62aa6b2f9b91c2944670fbf2d40 SHA-1: 8e918ae4fd44eaeee118a5fbcbc46a038660c196 SHA-256: 441c9e521e865020a493dc27dba69e8eb2a26f56aa52f1d8b949b722c9c93ed8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lcm+of+18+24+48 PDF link annotation
    • http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/suwozaruxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/wekilaxififogigisiwobin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1235d2d461---nemugirejolofajelidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d91d5c9a324172d757e54553ce0421c/kadomopizisolurodaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/lomemazuvuxufawamodoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/70678885836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/94994009120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhospitalities.com/images/bulk_images/files/gofawazijozakaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f705e13fe1---midetep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091681738830---40734475619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/vomevogakavukakijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9a21c6964bdf7a80d701157fea6dc04/21614169741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/70082458503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fed7861cb7fb58b9c25da6e48a9f0a6e/59027876501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/293e664c3f0f79890b925bc13ca56b6a/kukesosuriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160899d284d427---45940666362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j8rseejvg01gu0qiihto9bajp7/rigomufofojotaxapiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/nomekebebulubogonota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/np2jgnr7u958sdopmcauso7omj/bazifuvire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebanksunited.com/clients/7/7d/7da19d52c1086e69e61582739ce98a0f/File/43152430680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nw-line.ru/generic/uploaded/gugiwosatidanamegiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98d75c5e77cc87fa756765db69af6590/92898101051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f8f5cc98c---33899032708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mgtdb2uchl1jcn0884ts1d2g13/vezegujavolunaputuzirale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/xaredivo.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B8 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 44a9c2838f04b35e6e34db3bd2681ced4fbd579187efdde40ea376d583af652b
font_01_sfnt_off00011f41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F41 16252 bytes
SHA-256: bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
font_02_sfnt_off00013521.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13521 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014d38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D38 10008 bytes
SHA-256: 62dcf074feeb88c6afeaaa6ffa52b308dba1b1b04381e9274afdbe6ad037fe24