Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44ae14d726ff2739…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.0 KB Created: 2021-05-13 07:28:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e3f0a2e2e50b446d24da6398d4da8257 SHA-1: 50ae6329dedc5cfaee070bcf43dc50be4ac8cf3b SHA-256: 44ae14d726ff27396705d08e3dcdfa1193222028f18b432353c7722a40f2239a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating the document is designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084256120b7f---jababamaxodobofu.pdf
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/516cfdf32f34b7c0545038894fd4299a/ferew.pdf
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ndr1b1a8c57qplgj240k692gh4/bedijefixisoba.pdf
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvrhtpr26t9v11b26opt7cd2e2/vorizawosutogawuge.pdf
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095907a0d845---pabumikaj.pdf
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9255a33e64467b1c82373c7c3454a54/zimusasiposo.pdf
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/12376558271.pdf
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900eeb2eb9e---76193539370.pdf
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6560a3b64---81696348413.pdf
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/dirasupowutoguli.pdf
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d01d4a134---34933896031.pdf
    • http://vonkoenigsmund.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d06e79d2e3---pabumonusukapezubasup.pdf
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609669cc39867---lusawarenik.pdf
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9d054b190---20162628624.pdf
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/258eb3d85dfa5a92afa1eb8c001e6779/piwibonosegezupogaze.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=amrn+stock+earnings+report
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000be8d.bin
d57a818a43a3f6ab964bdf2a0e8a86bedd6cf627ed24b31464e37b767e0820d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE8D 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d070.bin
f87db85547a397986776ea9fec9fce3edfbebcd3e894c48a79a6f2e54e00640d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD070 9620 bytes