Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44e036975045d4c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:45:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 958dbe1516edc64973dcd2e5b478320f SHA-1: 1d3cdf20c5346d124cdc51568adcd2f3a0f12e09 SHA-256: 44e036975045d4c037c6ce8019433215bfeed12059995bd8a47cc861c8896bd0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely spearphishing attachment used to redirect victims to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/361775006131622ce0e58.pdf
    • http://xycrusher.com/d/files/limosazigiwejakilibijaf.pdf
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94854dee826c3489f01026037a8622d9/42756675086.pdf
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/93988244461.pdf
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3cbbe408ced492433e8d2cb07f33a45/nefepedokusosafut.pdf
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/19426422.pdf
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4ba069992---luwozimonuwadat.pdf
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/192069186.pdf
    • http://staceyasp.com/UserFiles/file/xowoguz.pdf
    • https://daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pigepoxosobizubuwupoxi.pdf
    • https://wietsevoermans.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68259862127.pdf
    • http://archiwum.wyryki.eu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41331040861.pdf
    • https://torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/78226506728.pdf
    • http://lctrading-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuletaziruraxubo.pdf
    • https://fasaac.org/temp//files/negokagadorilosagikazaz.pdf
    • http://songiadahoaian.com/upload/ck/files/jobinirifede.pdf
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9824d5df5a6dab6dd78095950adc8fd6/8574004897.pdf
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/10223064260.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/41152562901.pdf
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/resasolilinurizasipime.pdf
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/9675144816.pdf
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123604095fc7---fejoleniwa.pdf
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9e604b5f0---60791473718.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=4th+grade+science+test+pdf
    • https://www.thc.gda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85830855965.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f281.bin
eacab8c3758707c24c0b6cf7dfc15091f34cdaeafd85319b0862f9b10b349e72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF281 17368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011f56.bin
ac91a2a92ad4ffdc31d80a0d760c447e308705badbc3bf77b681ce07afd02def
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F56 10716 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000137af.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137AF 16792 bytes