Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44b875b4ebd76676…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:59:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: e34b4c2888863c74feaa3791d8d0393a SHA-1: 433c4f6eed554a356be7fc713500fb860d843154 SHA-256: 44b875b4ebd76676d2ea99b7363c437682aa81ffc0c55771eaed06f08b7bcf08
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9616f0a60fca3e3f0348f8e1558c973/13731188778.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aeuh4ki6c68gs4olarqcmeapjo/74769278816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/gedovuzagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a51807b17---75777566480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyosserspneed.com/userfiles/files/tuguvokabewetiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/wamirivafazuxusejase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stpatricksreunion.com/clients/84553/File/21443793033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supportsystemsvainc.com/home/ssvi/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25913468388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/16046271215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72155154b089a1e250182115bae4d886/tenofipafegajilasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j7ugqsj8raofeab0jpmame8g01/bupek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.net/images/uploads/files/jeviwukodapupofupafise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609feec0cc3f0---2944120071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e888b387780a9de49d11163a46ce680/58437994179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/gofed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/35354095982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22b4c8dc41---5645166936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701717e3e99---morebonafavowovavif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/gevegabugevavubalasaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f663e54cd---ladijojax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d89c5bb1cff93421c2a6ebea007bd52e/76180554247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=turbo+vpn+apk+pro+download+for+pcPDF 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_off0000f9fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9FC 10568 bytes
SHA-256: a4486c382f21bf5f209abf79be1506d7c515d48598d0795ba57ec93077b3857e
font_01_sfnt_off00011205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11205 26624 bytes
SHA-256: 0e97652b71b65b69b1720e07f5ca51ccc30d49232c25cfbc98868add70b81a3c
font_02_sfnt_off00014bd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1