Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44373ca5a78c7007…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:54:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3e7109fac882854c877da047496d3ba0 SHA-1: 178205c015e487fbc6ba3e552a73d08175398869 SHA-256: 44373ca5a78c7007a4cfd687a297c2be5bb0e969cbb48d8892a550c386ad7c2d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/tixofatezijexirijoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://linkevicius.com/upload/galery/file/52006039173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42d82acdb6dd18537b18f6c7c6a5af9d/65359934474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/61336469800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/90177964022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c64f0c7fa3b344912d57af075ba1a85/53874107274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botorka.ro/userfiles/file/71825401925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608455efdd710---79943812898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e6d3a153b---gajaboworiboxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/29937459405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/suwatedusozav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cae7842e9067ff4d862e8344b8594f1/33958715339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/nilepuponubinijopenade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xnucleus.com/members//member_images/files/67143811859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5f8c93d368fe16cefd44e938c7e8112/mibojebovefop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b4471f27a42764fbbb4c5ee23eb47a2/32993189402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indemo.pl/Image/files/61557343358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gud837q3jtscsf7vnl5skh077e/zufitaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161143b963aeeb---35146558141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7a2c07f31---39063674568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/10358390464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c78f580d048158ce90d4e78406ca5dc7/boledej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoracing.hu/userfiles/file/mufokije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64f4e1d9c7051ead7772252aa52d0540/vawewatifexovabudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89be501c01---83217607611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landia-print.com/pdir/file/jubotinedadasazizopikisat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=letter+v+worksheet+preschoolPDF 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_off0000dc36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC36 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 101856670fee17c36540ecc78e9bd9ba757da08625b67871f5bb2a42e9f3ad49
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B2 17808 bytes
SHA-256: 06cadf9e250a6d1d7807983a0066abf99127c7686cb808eb3bf66df4bfb83469
font_02_sfnt_off00012220.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12220 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1