Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4434206d7b5e2736…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 00:37:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8859f74d2299338ae57c187303434340 SHA-1: 8d385a8edd61cfd427b0dfd3700c6a491285466a SHA-256: 4434206d7b5e2736290c43772a99156c38301d01166942abd2deb8c2dcc1d97c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a multi-stage attack where the initial PDF serves as a lure to download further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766259cc69c---gewojumasivi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7qd3pr96n9a1j4rir3s77qvhs/kajavepimojogobumefogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aee4b51e53c---1131771929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/98935773896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbac46be8257a607e7ba237766fe29af/7803748996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/vonovozor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982a46a9f58---xerukifunikuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/sosam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/9611614929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c349735342249e5f826cca14443624d3/35060644123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/fozamoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b370a8741d0---zulubizakikosoviwipix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9dc02f1cf3---bagefujoxosimobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27c507t1ej6ere70mdan3r6n93/revoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adf5173a6bb---modovexotodofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082451f3f6ed---kuguwasibibaxetedopilawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jolu544ubagt4sm18sqtbpsb8g/13106572995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/6024717891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a0db4cc0f---kagafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/debepiwesogijotilevoniles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f07dd1a15---tefaluxanapozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=hyperglycemia+passing+outPDF 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_off00010aa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000122bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122BD 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 0d6c272ee453a844499531d96266987771e236b9b4f4242d07018a4465473282
font_02_sfnt_off00013c05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C05 17036 bytes
SHA-256: df51f41a91b98d6662c8d28cd78b773a423e46296f4e3709e0684bd803df7810