Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44dc4b530b94cec2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 18:07:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f7a65253eddfa78d32cceef2292c5d53 SHA-1: 7a5b5c75353f2cec6a43b983f62a7228f608a10f SHA-256: 44dc4b530b94cec2a2e3e2877a593176b5bcdb722229cf175766cb6f86e204fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://aordonez.com/images/contenidos/files/rinafupevezoxijipatomi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vamaconsulting.sk/userfiles/file/9299067976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalweek.eu/userfiles/files/82580467525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b598a891c9cfa1d5a9696848f5bd4dfd/10173715287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2b00f4b2544b80a28c27d4afb3f5b72/dazenilifuzodufes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santabruna.cl/upload/file/93267409484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/liwinegaxotosadij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/6660909290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newsale.linyn.mobi/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/46218291814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaservicecenter.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/polizujeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/5844288776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boweropodepaduxegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/38052715078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movimientofamiliadejesus.com/images/uploaded/file/dizugazatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/25041981579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/gipode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralatravelpath.com/uploads/file/41793718300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxkimya.com/resimler/files/91956500184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polletnv.be/uploads/files/29019783196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161336eff2e583---20353964603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdsenfeng.com/data/files/49188441026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simsvizag.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file///91690679528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/nosipinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e2276b610c8655d4498d363f029d467/90943104186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=throne+of+glass+book+5+read+onlinePDF 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_off000115ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012dfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DFC 17816 bytes
SHA-256: 140307735168f61f9a4c21ad542bd836b355b2b1aebec8b46dde1357ea61c6ac
font_02_sfnt_off00015c80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C80 10864 bytes
SHA-256: a2fc553e0738464177b067f4f47c9eacc44e30e25b1eb39c1f20c9b3d87612af