Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44fb27aaa2ac941b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:07:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 22a23657a9f3863a6444c4a3bd2d009f SHA-1: 6811017f9c813c53cdd27f4b29929acd75463055 SHA-256: 44fb27aaa2ac941b1c15c91413cfd61479152196d9ba21593ad648a3e3dd8f5b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, supports this assessment. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

Heuristics 5

  • 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://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ca5c7821f3249f14a7d6b5f1b55a088/1546531189.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a937ba288cf---67947410234.pdf
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/zufafixukowagiku.pdf
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/xafomulobugenuroki.pdf
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/gowinerisu.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-27/20210627143728380920.pdf
    • http://educationexplosion.com/clients/a/aa/aae59ec6301d25964842a0067e0ae100/File/91011626321.pdf
    • http://www.gpkoaee.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zojoladevuvovewunovi.pdf
    • http://canyonmeadows.org/userimages/41973805092.pdf
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b53b43723---xufog.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748423418fc---taxoxatonazomasexofisadiz.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db73eb3eed---gewabigudazidof.pdf
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d0f689e12de2f4f6b0abc9dc0d1ebea/18345068122.pdf
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/80862930305.pdf
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b60b034e2ff6ace831a578dc0993ede6/werutu.pdf
    • https://clinicscrm.com/img/files/53245536169.pdf
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d593f62038---bonimelumovulojojafarapaw.pdf
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d9bd617f6---rututasaxajetagumi.pdf
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/tazera.pdf
    • https://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/lexim.pdf
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e76e6a5b3---17561972427.pdf
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/74732245273.pdf
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba934378628---27171541955.pdf
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/pubewexamula.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=bengali+panjika+2020+pdf+download
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dcf6.bin
6c08887b596ecb472c5a0482df8c2f828d83fc5b5d16111ed0caa1fced1b35dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF6 1680 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4f3.bin
5525741e26ced83e15f842fdc8569bfb3aa16dbaa4795f7b94153883dfdf18e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F3 10912 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe22.bin
bc9f322c49510a5b157301afcabd0a560536d7db47f37846b3b5df280440b9d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE22 21388 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013585.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13585 16792 bytes