Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7444e513f0ced04b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:22:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 446f2251ddef417d2b1ac09f53769b6c SHA-1: 964502b56d1fa52d3cec5da998cdced086622c2a SHA-256: 7444e513f0ced04b6e83d78317ef2bb471dabce362d71b16600d1d3c6bcc600f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a downloader or redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d7778d914---zegifumawiwuzosiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://appfacile.it/file/tenuxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c08b015114d---65522052939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210617181731813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/jogamijum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/wokexisokodifezokufoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nuyew.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/947fcc93f8bd5ec6f2b6caef77135c66/kelepokegisomalagumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec97a3407c2c8410c20fc9728dc7990/27941785180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomisszio.hu/tmp/98819147890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertcomptablecourreges.fr/michel_courreges/userfiles/file/4062064387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/74498136752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65f42a8401---vedizovuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ccf375de7c726981806fc977c31d5d6/jovefojajimikadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/98493497449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c62bc8320---madepulutamunizuvetevuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f952930026---59061837892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ee6a75e70---45338177847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/jofurumezozud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xigmatek.com/upload/files/13825792444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072481125760---51750680796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tlh3supufouku4a32bi5qt5l3t/81441092722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/146fffe9a98c8be65de3e10946fd3d47/12345820016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=psych+2+lassie+come+home+watch+online+freePDF 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_off0000edec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDEC 18360 bytes
SHA-256: 865f344a20b76114a308ebaf7ba07646aaeda2944da2434af20bfed089923db5
font_01_sfnt_off00011e0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E0D 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 4729cbb8656e8232ce90d43137bce2748bc50fbbef9f613eb22e79be44525ebc
font_02_sfnt_off00013750.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13750 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1