Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44c9e2cb8d3c87af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 09:00:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0040defe430209cdc29029dcbe850b59 SHA-1: 27379717b2fa2370eb64b5d045821c586d88705f SHA-256: 44c9e2cb8d3c87afa75a8854c4c5dec312439a605fe9b4810129266b70bba5ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for distributing malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is unreadable due to obfuscation, but the heuristics and URLs clearly show a pattern of redirecting users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a247593a2c6---59579361984.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608679f552b6a---40050234418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf8229e56ef6b1555a56edbe30e03422/bivezobobuxurug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gmt5q9qeghsqmm688n9ma63jr2/jinusalerapuzezufuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dianthusindustrial.com/resimler/files/48422308509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/fadiwovikatisirodekosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/9929730542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/vukubokozenapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/63082953064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ss387b2dtfak5odcp13vo1kp1/44212782691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9154b689a26ae187f710f4e621e3df3c/ritogiwivud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5eaa06d9ef---zofopovobubasufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1154da2459---kusexizoboxavozawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bainihu.com/upfiles/editor/files/rajokefazif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee69f68baf---4088170861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa8949877b---lavaxedulutusidapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d02e7be6032947ba4f729b6e1ef0bf3/2864110065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4dpmcjc206s8tfhg0oe7h0v50/tolatolibul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u2r1mksifnf88p8163dnv76d23/1400971289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc271865b2---5998485597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edlarbhhbnt7bpvlk4jsuor4k2/jijuxagilalunulaxefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608253c1adda7---41847135920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b49e610bf19---20219232917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7671f7bde8---tupazorekivuderilizafafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=haswell+microarchitecture+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001608f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1608F 4244 bytes
SHA-256: 1a3b892136a3e73f03ace33ce2b902d8c43dc20aecf51d926f351888692bcf93
font_01_sfnt_off00017084.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17084 18540 bytes
SHA-256: 94f3e3006aab8fecf068e738bd07cefb0edbef7d00e86bbe943c1e2340fb328c
font_02_sfnt_off0001a1be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A1BE 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 7ee5d31fe7beea0a7c854fbf0d2e06ae8ee91be7e43cd1743458072e5ef2a411
font_03_sfnt_off0001bb29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BB29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1