Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44a2e6f4724ca13c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-07-17 12:25:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4e8223a50f5faa5a64a6c251ab503c16 SHA-1: fc303ea3da9bb64a6ff74628af3b2719b3f2fc57 SHA-256: 44a2e6f4724ca13c551001942a3f9268b1bdb25e337a771f86f8302c842a8b3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, with the primary goal appearing to be directing users to potentially malicious content on external sites.

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://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9c0b2bb01a---rigediralofosav.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cafemocion.com/userfiles/file/zerebosum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607baf2e75000---89832006511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/dimaxesivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee88bc853f5---94075806005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1sm9hut8po53b01v203c3u2631/dilefobatadelapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d048965cd4---jaluligexikok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e32751d464---48224702245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/91587630720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5051f3c18---wexape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinnaduraflex.com/uploads/files/37645276391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accu-chek-event.com/ckupload/files/25629284793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17e1bb68fe---92785759476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.com/uploads/images/files/dalajuvezeravetadijiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb7f772edb---33103294967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecole-anglais.com/upload/files/75670312185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3h744mp748fmclhfn3hso58lc/bovezalekuwobawigufuxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088250bc322f---vozebaxinixonuvolutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srilangkapools.com/contents//files/zubup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210531164242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/170931388147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/dajupegame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9i0tqofnpihblq172b90cg840/13988048162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/fudaximukabapefubebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=stochastic+signals+and+systemsPDF 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_off0000d79b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD79B 16924 bytes
SHA-256: bef4a7f8d384b544aa86b931863059bfb03f036cc403d127e5500dc8156295ee
font_01_sfnt_off000102fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B15 10904 bytes
SHA-256: b5ad013480b8876b293b3036f4e61808d81c5ab0d3e28791216d6d087ce49937