Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 444da7b19d14552e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-08-07 03:24:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: c19c3675fa56fa36d84ea5e9a8abac10 SHA-1: 162a33b41e6355955d47c746e6a701528b7031e5 SHA-256: 444da7b19d14552e59449e9e5b1e85796636d836b2542bda208d5758321e415b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicate a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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 http://musiconthebay.org/clients/2/26/269dd5bc96e197da989a8dccc71442af/File/65913250982.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://josquin-capella.de/download/68159492414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609618de74cf2---fusitat.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f5ea35b25---4580221069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/314671dc9b362e11b2682bbe3cc4d873/zidakibalexagogupopeweta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b71fcd099---zobawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art4you.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/vizum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivatbacchus.hu/files/file/18957550470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10626731537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.com/file/tamowumikomuzusamezaruza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harrisonsfamilyreunion.com/clients/62911/File/saginafogupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27541a5d897126f169789165e7d7aef6/79447671712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oumkua.com/userfiles/file/lilewirokikametudebevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/66155980377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/27472885050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/19482668347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalgroupautos.com/files/others/zidatudinevejezovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2b200cc3f---20745059082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd871cc3d8---44099493267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f833917a8124b6705e46df3bf2ed313d/21027770852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e47ff27347104c6d1ec0eae4cff6b34/wefeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3296d1121a---49054129706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=pediatric+advanced+life+support+powerpoint+presentationPDF 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_off0000e12f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE12F 18288 bytes
SHA-256: df9690fc62d725589c1abf9877c6968c65f2efcd9700bd202814b32f10da8daf
font_01_sfnt_off00011125.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11125 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001293c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1293C 10864 bytes
SHA-256: ea57156a73b0e8c6f9a72743dbf4673332d14ab08883ec0a6ab9f4d1408f854d