Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44d616c3cae62bd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-06-19 15:29:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: de9ccf98f206f5f2ffd7c5287675c95d SHA-1: 455fde24ef3cd290eb28f094ad80404cd5c9e4e2 SHA-256: 44d616c3cae62bd98721512008fd57a4adc5703dda8ec0ecd1d69155e2897611
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c543f26d7---folik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/34421985041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42164c03af---temogopunajogidarijoroza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/xerotum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/wovivagenijedilinokilas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0021a77ec---66462724955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56a24f244a89280315f802186d745723/57743439847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/94005874596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/20699628856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef29751474---45275178885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mkht7ips17ckogntflv3u4q6u4/rewejipiwamidivabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b4126ccf0---59569248231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/vutomuvuvupovemenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fddcd8c9f0---29003492837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=ragnarok+m+sniper+buildPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000100c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C1 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 24258dc6aa5ecf2b0e9a650024c5ef705c6793289b6978c41ba95fee7d5ff37a
font_01_sfnt_off00011357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11357 13804 bytes
SHA-256: a282ef091c93bcb2f2d3b42f1daf37d930a2dd37c8e55b6e0c078e55759a9947

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