Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cd44d375208dc12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:11:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 58095010ce2837f2f35f4a8f7218caa0 SHA-1: 922b71703ccd4fa2248f95d4fb8ba2e90cee8351 SHA-256: 4cd44d375208dc12331da676b33d44b61818cfb6e48b2920c4b84744d02f30e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains. Heuristics indicate these links are designed to redirect users, and the presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures or malware droppers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+jurassic+world+fallen+kingdom+online+free+putlocker PDF link annotation
    • http://geotersrl.it/file/53915630599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/51614677373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saintarseny.ca/sites/saintarseny.ca/files/file/31907983977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remini.hu/userfiles/file/47506687409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613263444989c---notovalokidibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescasciortino.it/userfiles/files/bimaduze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinobajka.pl/Upload/file/fawarivuragabifativirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szm.hu/userfiles/file/34858502539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontan-montag.ru/img/upload/79766552210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132dd64e2bd6---zolejudimipoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/74267293758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llbyggodesign.se/UserFiles/files/vimagomiwivalofodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suduxojajemumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adice-area.com/pictures/files/mafejojupomuwotujesewat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/padinevapogavinamuvomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/palenalanebefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westhollywood.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/51910699650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itchanoi.vn/uploads/news_file/jolixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/78276285958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/63192230265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ride-on-earth.com/images/blog/file/subasawonopilafag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koratspring.com/upload/file/78407761345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f09e79836b8d74a3b4b574b00b2b6872/11328122583.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8B1 16384 bytes
SHA-256: ae55d1c5d4d8fc05ae5825c75585c8e87f86a3e7bed4b749a8f45e442c1bbd89
font_01_sfnt_off0001029a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1029A 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 06a8f48e7c1c1a8275a49a8767b40a5175db85e1f07e33150ac4e3ffd2ac0298
font_02_sfnt_off00011d60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1