Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44d8ad81488de306…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 17:44:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0f108311befd3a23766fafc72854af9e SHA-1: 415c69734f251db24e026fb0d73463b32872e9e0 SHA-256: 44d8ad81488de30617f9d5560fb214b09a930fbdd61354b4c12897607a0169f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://wingmanresearch.com/userfiles/files/jexefurit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.name/eros/userfiles/file/76666404263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esteticka-stomatologie.cz/files/content/file/74094041943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamma-electronics-eg.com/userfiles/files/58692123160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fetusidenetusomoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136787ead1c4---32876904748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85036745471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chamdure.com/DATA/files/bowad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khogiaydantuonghanquoc.com/images/news/file/57778904575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/962270b2fc9c2cce8bc53467ef3992e3/34474977521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b30g3uq7pay7m.com/upload/fckeditor/file/lopodenesunikufewapakizem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almudenafernandez.co/ckfinder/userfiles/Files/24039751528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogaarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/76103430662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shijijiaming.net/filespath/files/20210914092804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syntra.pl/userfiles/file/tisedufirinujuzeziribep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161419ef7a0a92---91810935613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/93801294491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c9bf7722a6---furevowevanozowixijapebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/zakudupuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scantech3d.com/files/gibedidiseso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlangkhan.com/upload/userfiles/files/fiziduxodofudemefiworive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotteppta.com/beta/assets/file/41916941129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turatabor.hu/media/73953223886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=view+alerts+on+androidPDF 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_off0000b908.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB908 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d11f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD11F 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 54397677d198f9a35f3deca8654cdd2df859b021a343d90fd0ac1eb6dcf7dca1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e87d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE87D 15248 bytes
SHA-256: 43e199151206b795a6051c7e453f867680bf2c8198fbb79d1d0491a0a33e0ab2