Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44cc0d560bc95c42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-06-20 03:04:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a6337ac3a43275398d561159ffc89173 SHA-1: e6b6a01b09f1502f1f611dbd9a4b95379c6dfc97 SHA-256: 44cc0d560bc95c4282a261885bb186213c0ed997f2f2e4c9e76c370ff6715daf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely to download further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'organic chemistry john mcmurry 9th edition pdf free', suggesting a lure to trick users into downloading what they believe is an academic resource.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=organic+chemistry+john+mcmurry+9th+edition+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3e97a31dc---kawepowadigubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847a3ef3270---27398535206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2c2273733---kamozozewixezixapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1daf6274f734742bdd1c35abe7486f27/xulubejixopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kn5ebfbjhvmi3jmqkm6rl29u5q/vuwazifaxumibeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/37189246626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.info/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos/%5C/88890542297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakesandcupcakes.net/userfiles/files/82986636383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2b06e6a955---12537384997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc851d3f8a---28848382369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b40c1c21f0---4727234060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/fagevoraboxizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087bf600cd3c---26577419496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armandofalconi.net/userfiles/file/93587699770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/21543202334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwalabamaave.com/uploads/files/84605714930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000feb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB4 5896 bytes
SHA-256: df68e4ce04b2043ebd3acb05f06347b74f2f02bb8abf7b6f18da54909b80e97e
font_01_sfnt_off000112ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112AB 11632 bytes
SHA-256: d5ef502e193950e550327e7c05661255f7d89b3c65aaed675c942fb6b6086a1c