Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44b865a2c4c06bef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-08-16 17:00:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9286edda754a2c690273a9505e8232e2 SHA-1: 6edfd8c31971bb52168180f9f4768c718a564667 SHA-256: 44b865a2c4c06befc05eec569215476f9726866ac4d8baedd38b6830866722c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. This structure is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, aiming to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608548763fe7e---vumasovipilokugisewepuvib.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e014558fe4d76fa4f38bfa8e9acfd471/wisofivugorinuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c75d3d17a---lamavitefapati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/21956515956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpi1pusat.com/contents//files/51300795013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/42585960549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becskeicsodajo.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/70725573549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/pixatixebejetavuwexuwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0d8d7eba84---refenigutotov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e59129sam1411upllrj1lmct2l/dudulozumerawesitez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/wavixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/vusefavezewusemepabimad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/74497726847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daismene.it/file/pokama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/88975891183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114a05d0d6f9---25546827254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12hs0lbv97212r140622lnvjve/kalakul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd6c3e488c---22246110660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nv7vepa0vdid1hkb5fp0r5jqa0/27391867910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costruzionibulagna.it/userfiles/files/witilafoxasora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d81c58905a---45219373053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9df8c4d28---merumuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=states+of+matter+crossword+worksheet+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000f376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF376 17532 bytes
SHA-256: 295455b08aa9797d9ce566e30498f588bf112798adcb6d70183ee80de5f63492
font_01_sfnt_off0001215f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1215F 10972 bytes
SHA-256: c9a9ba6da10bd84754bd7b770695cd70476f8feca3695715e704433e943b97eb
font_02_sfnt_off00013ab8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1