Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44c1ff89a67b38a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 09:38:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b70175c12c191c7e5b6fac3d6a316d09 SHA-1: dcf37e03da5c5d09913d116c736f76ec39ac0287 SHA-256: 44c1ff89a67b38a3f1945b6ca68e54b4df5ffb2310b899a229f3356e352e51f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a downloader or phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://ng-sons.com/userfiles/file/kanokanuminabuwifos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f6da649bf9---wimevobim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daotaolaixesontay.com/uploads/file/watuzowuborovuxare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///luzovapoveligudiwivax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zobedizuxixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/68975223366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/dukovasezikubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easypayindia.in/userfiles/file/74394485583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theclelandgroup.com/img/upload/file/11034678938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettogeometra.it/userfiles/files/96154136928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137df8c74496---86117926812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/648ab7dac63ea2b60d7b335c21a761aa/vebepalubom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/pikegidaxojegefuvet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardolf.ro/files/21900653825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertracapital.com/uploads/files/33708137175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-dr.com/uploads/files/202109052224063644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161375a1655d63---sawax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75b31901ef0d610416be698897033139/xusonasarilanuwalakapob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artcorner-fiberglass.com/userfiles/files/bosew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://35ct1.com/images/ckImageFiles/files/99140633321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhihepvb.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109102335078563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=nexus+7+upgradePDF 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_off0000d24f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD24F 10336 bytes
SHA-256: e67ad0e13a2dec240f85878c3352b8cefde5410d4312c7b37eaac708b5e122ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000101b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B4 18772 bytes
SHA-256: 3b783fe2f19873d688514285934bb7e5f0cf19cc0812acd6c686daf3739710ce