Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 443552a408f00dda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-08-18 05:41:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dcaa4f8364da20c8b75b3a9319a9caa1 SHA-1: e60cb93690ee2d3ee8df599eb7b24920dc7d9de9 SHA-256: 443552a408f00dda8a114dc7c5be97251f56656a5e776cf0e77e52d21c323943
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic indicates a common tactic to bypass security gateways by encrypting the actual payload, which is then likely delivered via one of the linked sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=childish+gambino+awaken+my+love+free+download
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/26911267966.pdf
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff216e10cf708993bfa5b6f9ea30bc53/milazudamurixilonin.pdf
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/15176554996.pdf
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/71050866095.pdf
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70e249367d6e2ee409ebe22828ff54e3/gixizavatuxomikodewi.pdf
    • http://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/dajekidilowegilofawijuz.pdf
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/donekefizag.pdf
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shqc5r48v4ofj76edulhcv9cjq/63243618421.pdf
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb19fb4862---zoxarategirizexalenoboguj.pdf
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e71d3eb56---78002953304.pdf
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d82776c67b9ed789ca2bf045b9df31a/dugixejepenusura.pdf
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dd2e76dde---4655934302.pdf
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcaaaa5be58f0e92e4209b824ee46ef3/75119679796.pdf
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dibogosugulusozagabunepil.pdf
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d51723ddda06d4e9bfc12fe91814a620/vijimasubuxoloxivasu.pdf
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u6n6u8oec7ra2i444qelhj2ej6/94316902006.pdf
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9e4d6293b---lesuxaletabukesomo.pdf
    • http://benly-carson.com/product/files/21059098572.pdf
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jotosi.pdf
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bf2aee6a6be89cc0a15417058df7717/poxusek.pdf
    • http://valsadindustries.com/userfiles/file/lupewuxewipakovali.pdf
    • http://mariancozma.com/_user/file/lowarufevam.pdf
    • http://rchs1964.com/clients/5/58/580abc73d3aac4ea3a2bdd7c75327783/File/20986440044.pdf
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdddeb54d9349f5f0cef52cc37094bb3/noguwunulak.pdf
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc751d9538---96482304222.pdf
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/83883636396.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f580.bin
25941ff2a29a9d1a94453e96e3c053483ee1acebabfc2da3e863febc4811c3ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF580 19276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000128d7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000140ee.bin
e5eb18aa5e2cc11cf1513197edcd7f53ab49419c7c615c25569bb9996bd749b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140EE 11232 bytes