PDF malware analysis — malicious · 44f4583db74374a7

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 20:16:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25

MD5: 7dc68c6546a99df7ac51c33beb8c9d45 SHA-1: 908df6d305ec88ab224a4b51e4e7e75ffe4e7e49 SHA-256: 44f4583db74374a7bc3c9e7fdb1c1973ca1766925a301972653dd0d099d75c17

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=formula+of+length+and+breadth+of+rectangle PDF link annotation
- http://tcihk.com/userfiles/vubusotafokujanoranovesal.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96ec4ab395a72330bac515a9a643a001/43924066568.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e2d1821f1---50342837942.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79c758736b---rures.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3abde94402a4671ab380e86a2aa4881/15375045010.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd3c32ac600163ab31f232ab7a189127/7768896577.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071887e0af95---19672856553.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/166967751.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077fed6b44a2---68264412699.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a73d302ec90b9c8abb8826b59da2256/ragapemeribobuxosana.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c306ec508---51867710875.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://rayzerfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/08/08e2d5bcffca37c2e1a82d364f4296c6/File/popurakop.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717fd0d2af6---1976450204.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19579eb5e6---xoxopelapunagedovugaxeza.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c105c60fabb---21390665482.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b079246fcd11b5cb12a7ca21ff82e4c/35633453194.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091371f1f462---kopenevojapojufaporoxiba.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-12/20210612114631766664.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/voj34tr1nrqgm1dcfu010ri7q2/9145143041.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/fipabuxuvofefovovatitolo.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c01162df3---70539948904.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e53a5f6b01575552bf9a2710af59576a/mapopajipirudafikol.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/81563448102.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788a79b85f2---zupifijebelebi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b89fe3074e5fdef710273c973d08402c/wuwavatubipamulomalibiman.pdfIn PDF document text
- 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000e01f.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE01F	10880 bytes
SHA-256: `bbb7387c4697cdfe4a0a6908170a814f96a3bfe396771d2ac53e07ff5cf91047`
`font_01_sfnt_off0000f8dc.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8DC	18232 bytes
SHA-256: `2476c814d78383363dd5b9d377979c7e698b9d2e7d8099d50024f6742d5fac6f`
`font_02_sfnt_off0001295d.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1295D	16224 bytes
SHA-256: `3bea062a4977096fe7698c2120e3c6b0ec37f1d3ac87e658c87e916b717fa40c`
`font_03_sfnt_off00013f40.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F40	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`

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