Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4944727c7850363c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-21 13:11:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: aaf03ffa077c4d1ea7847435ce9bc603 SHA-1: b9f60bd60953ab5389b54df76bb6337033e01db7 SHA-256: 4944727c7850363c6758e4469485090ff753e563285f1b3f7e1bdf30a9513311
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, with many links pointing to other PDF files. This suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/32594425507.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c79cec94b41ab40ce6fc0fa95ab7556/60563382838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbcf20e706---tonurowumefake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goraku-sangyo.com/userfiles/file/74753471487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210702144913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608222b5456ef---donerog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94f042f6fda3a15b96bd98a230ddeba0/matubevatevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a750b1dd16b---devutixupofux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvtamminhphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/22871469530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a34cdf6aa---36346010419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cecqpaleu44sq2me1s6t20fp6d/36985309595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bf6arnjuqeeidojdr08jao08a/visejig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/bevulazujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb53b921e4---tusiduzudiwobusono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntrc.biz/clients/f/f0/f0759d16aca5b3dfc9163ee994587b7f/File/rabaxuvim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-20/20210520022948462430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/sitaponura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cbe19a3f78---60592244511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5d146449f0---42614642156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulmenu.com/uploads/files/51411539854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ahcjevtqq.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41907235147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607614233c168---41726953780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=vocal+performance+resumePDF 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_off0000ebb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB7 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 72ccf5b6dad48cfe421d735de75273330bed5c56106d0776fcabe7a4480c84c1
font_01_sfnt_off000103af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103AF 18272 bytes
SHA-256: e482c79e72b3f093e1bbc89531e92076faca253b3df0624503763427d5aa382c
font_02_sfnt_off0001329a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1329A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1