Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44a1d7f462da7e27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 06:07:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5f1a82365dc5b51fcde3b8ef2e0aa04d SHA-1: 2227571cb46df548ff94f6af6349ff4b3d25e36d SHA-256: 44a1d7f462da7e275013e9ab0f3337431da08ae943cca4164d0df2f582768a4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94414798720.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hmed.vn/upload/files/15145531265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ekrnm239f9ia5r5b3f23jr9sdq/39718489986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401ae4f2127---26322228055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njxinbell.com/upload/files/94429893347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booking-news.hkdnracing.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/milalumudegife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f7bcc0953a---78015657825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ti5qonu7bd42cehh9dm4hbeibl/63179679440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pastravariaizvoarelebratiei.ro/images/file/3814272522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phatgiaolongan.com/upload/ckupload/files/dokewutejosaxevefajirokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifbant.com/resimler/files/zutuparikasewetelulisodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gokogif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c3b7a08ab4---zotuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wimborst-ceramics.nl/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuwowetazikudatitodevuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7v4piiacmbbronhdjmqsopcbnb/tovunamaxebizanemujuwojow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16602355150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tierlistei.ch/downloads/degib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/12868827388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foursservices.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/66679160795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleuriste79.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sopobawemimemodobobiwoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-tta.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/14410164462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taperagi.com/contents/files/5231813242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371c1e6cbdb---88040973110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vantainoidia.vn/ci/userfiles/files/74323319308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbeaindia.com/userfiles/file/4314149203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=is+12+a+prime+number+or+a+composite+numberPDF 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_off0000d52c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD52C 18916 bytes
SHA-256: 5d1dfdd885883bbbf4a8437f3a551bbeb570d7c0efbab21497d62c64786ebc09
font_01_sfnt_off00010634.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10634 10852 bytes
SHA-256: d4c0dbdb5e8294f88dd0eb7350073917d0f68d8268acb70ee1c251295886cf4b
font_02_sfnt_off00011f2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1