Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44e2cd9b248c189e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 18:07:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 98b229fd111d8af53f1c8ea0c268a5c7 SHA-1: 5b3770dad1f03b6c3061bf19ae9d89c3841cddb1 SHA-256: 44e2cd9b248c189e3ba7dc34d6e001ffc6c357acbb1009563b5a371d635d6f7e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it's a link farm on disposable hosting and potentially compromised CMS upload storage. An embedded JavaScript stream was detected, suggesting it may be used to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The numerous unknown URLs point to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://silatur.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90754642598.pdf
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/24449170046.pdf
    • http://www.saaegfpolis.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xirusegesebidorituz.pdf
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/90353051862.pdf
    • http://suspensionestg.mx/userfiles/file/98266183819.pdf
    • http://ig-einheitsloks.de/medien/file/81349169627.pdf
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/naniremokonivogari.pdf
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/file/52491700039.pdf
    • http://chiron-ventures.com/chiron/home/img/upload/files/210912090801627145o0wzw.pdf
    • https://dolnoslaskialarmsmogowy.pl/imgturysta/files/92030877023.pdf
    • http://okna-stv.ru/userfiles/files/39390288921.pdf
    • https://srmhomes.com/images/bulk_images/files/67867059866.pdf
    • http://teplo76.ru/uploads/file/dexupogulasemiwigiro.pdf
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/vudazorisegotikelemidor.pdf
    • http://cuadepthanglong.com/images/ckeditor/files/9111061831.pdf
    • http://fitviewer.info/files/file/77455755121.pdf
    • http://www.trackls.com/application/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mivem.pdf
    • http://9jamail.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/mibigafufojirunusa.pdf
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5nv8lh50rvml1p6fojd1o7s34n/88625420910.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161412d9c84809---menos.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cbb00232c9---juvarosodedozogeketasidos.pdf
    • http://etcpremium.com/userfiles/files/kitufi.pdf
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/pulolasuf.pdf
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rivefubematade.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=wood+elves+army+book+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_off0000bf8f.bin
76e1c872bc971e28de2483ff1e4e4dd4b4f0721f69e7a8c6b366c502c6e45bce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF8F 10768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d82f.bin
e86fbba875a2abaab1795a0aa8dffe16136202f3afe0a1ac4e7511968c38b713
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD82F 18400 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000107a5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A5 16792 bytes