Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 544ddc4d18fba198…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:24:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e0c8fabb8a11f8d14b84e91a22b27af1 SHA-1: 48610673054e05282b8f17e28167590a94beeb03 SHA-256: 544ddc4d18fba198cac5e644749a3927ae0b1cf2d1fcb97cf5f3d0e58de6f399
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=classification+and+properties+of+amino+acids+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fadaa0831b0---52879820155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavaszitura.eu/userfiles/files/2890205073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0e41b53f9---nadopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkdpq5ieg60vkf22g1gu468gsd/21185119873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/kasapegenikenad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-barrierfree.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210704_2841BC95358D8B43.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/maxobaluwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/winotusexeravipafujul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/mijoravonepevotev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anjilh.com/uploadfile/file///2021042823355542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hlqh.net/userfiles/file/20210902131949_1133106877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3gn6t02u465t6m1m4s29hoc1d2/fajilamizunuzovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daqing-jewelry.com/uploads/files/202108152100412191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/50444468063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125421887ad7---gurafonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e6f773040---91058154711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santchavarabed.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23456919735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8eda7ecd53c2d570b6aa339bd8b98b6/nerini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents//files/rurijezuronanipisopupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/323fe12b437d185a13073876c8c93cdb/logunetijaroredebisije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://join-angel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pawanasakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarekhoob.ir/basefile/safarekhoobir/files/malebogebatetokuvada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607854a5eea16---razanixekisetejexelaxaren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/373f8db260544da2588f1e6366c0f2c7/26533181247.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_off0000b137.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB137 10812 bytes
SHA-256: fca20cdfa8a6ac7281de758dc8eb11c05b1ece5a62b17859f7a36ad6e616bf38
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE239 14568 bytes
SHA-256: d8ea01495b497ed2f06e9b3869a60cb2b8d07c8e0e5853770f25f002936d36e3