Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44b434a5005eaf32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-14 09:42:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: a0728f1c7b38cb18844b655f18648372 SHA-1: 3b457698ddae070f9462bcac5cb78f1a7796b842 SHA-256: 44b434a5005eaf32840611d11694bc27209fff782e1808d8635dd3f893949ec3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=you+belong+with+me+chords+no+capo PDF link annotation
    • https://mamadona.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5964826191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eijo.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/senipibabojizonotadavus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.schule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jidupevun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb30c4df53---68646237871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/268e8217b1f319b085d7335a4cc18981/daxitemekobewaperapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45617f8d35bc10fec6e9933c6a6ba97e/getudizawezagewonita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/66848290679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796f6b557f9---35202523474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enidbtwcreunion.com/clients/5/52/52e94d62e82ff66504c7d921fc07bf70/File/nezawudezurufewesoraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rana-international.com/userfiles/files/samuxowusevivamepunagudod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/butigipisenakoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd73270a4d3---88888057809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f8b6890dcfd5907b6709db34aeb4399/28758808443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbfa8994e3---duruzegikisexenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec6b6b4659204235f2109d47c7c8fc99/nukidatata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b180499097dd456c1e03379d942b0831/jakimukavewabaxapavewutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/zulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alohatoypoodles.com/clients/1/11/1122824db0f83c9e74cf39311881f217/File/11252036350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210530_23E89FD40323CFF3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/46706481698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kr76lukdf4ei51vslmussldu9f/29680365639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b65352ce4---15410728328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4ts15l5s5ta0guirrqen1m9fe/subonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/77438437477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/jawejonirobogoliboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1DF 19532 bytes
SHA-256: f2c86fee04ca63f77044f9f69f865d128cd802cfc0470fb7147ed7ff605f80fe
font_01_sfnt_off0001140c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C1D 16236 bytes
SHA-256: 34713e05be2bdbb357be259c69ab4dfbf5b201d0d1a9b93aa810588731fab9a6
font_03_sfnt_off000141e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141E5 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 5f221a9203347102612ef47f8fad55d50cb41df71f992d336ed93cb3507d31da