Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 443f01b470511444…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 06:06:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 682af067abe490117a15bb3eac4a5b65 SHA-1: 9f44f2de1e8f1e7088bbaa23d2470812f691d32d SHA-256: 443f01b4705114447bfc1e02e5d45ea49b429818af1d0cbbb5c91ea95103d1e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2041b016f7b260bd1f0eadd152618b2b/jatulogezovusupusasoli.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d31c4403620b5d237b23870beab1540b/16987034478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0g31u0am6db7busagud199s3g/dafopig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/xugavotaxugarokufijapiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22683927135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/resilewilananalumulopan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/tizokolojasaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/bizedonimubad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d7c885c92d---49422180037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb280d9ca7---73118518512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/68818409625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b11133769f---bafezuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/minitudizove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9r9fe8vt5offrsri2vf70c1kd4/93038988712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o47psnai55abngullcjbicke42/66022726376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1a14978533ab193b6e15c2db31e0a08/46986359360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d054804b9e---sudorimawolubedegofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f98a570b7---47037153857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d5b91fd4a---62645668615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c428c6ba749---modolakewufabefezabudelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/360fc725a15710cff856cecbd4b7ae48/93887495104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a010a6d1a5f---xixudebiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a06fbceb8---27203405048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.com/upload/67402348154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=health+enhancing+physical+activityPDF 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_off0000d5ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5AD 16332 bytes
SHA-256: f24442457a1686a7df5c87d3edccd6a05ab30bb5d53b8f44bc66b643d10db97d
font_01_sfnt_off00010024.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10024 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 00d0bf4f36eefc81fc0f119ff6331bf5a4dbfb6b8f7eeef990f576fc22882f57
font_02_sfnt_off0001184d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1184D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1