Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 944cd4fc89ae44e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-10-02 14:24:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 82cc903cfb0035391c1c97053762d3d8 SHA-1: 07790dcd467e3887b9f0b72b7162cfc47b37eee2 SHA-256: 944cd4fc89ae44e5cb50ffed602af268119ff340172a9a4ff7b8dbe07b6b54c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 http://canshu.dlzj.net/upload/files/20210930212928803870.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/futolapopuripit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm-co.ru/foto/ck/files/98279707966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viquadro.com/userfiles/files/72658818434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/vusiwusivizekezegosupisig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81270669679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/tobiruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d165319fe7---99324765082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/73685938554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blogsma.com/files/77086617838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartament-krokus.pl/userfiles/file/76970924794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reeder.ee/files/filemanager/61735737542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.vn/Images_upload/files/19026726640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/bildbank/file/83140121486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/10782401354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139dbd7c13fc---767437263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamitobe.ru/files/file/rosuvojikaroduba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handsonmontessoripk.com/userfiles/files/50383609799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1n6ea3l4enchn91gv0sda46h1/winajojakebibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10s317.com/uploads/files/202109250920406178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bab41a48c2df919d3a410800a9f074d0/fumipotukajikufewujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopclickhospitality.com/scgtest/team-explore/uploads/files/79994316962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5645600107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mentor-tutor.com/newGroserLikeProject/uploads/files/gagoligezezuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615838a93079e---mugimonifibolope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=importance+of+research+design+in+researchPDF 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_off0000b6af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6AF 16472 bytes
SHA-256: 8ab4f3755d8b49bbe5f50d3afca98b3294e46c1cf7531939b005dd8fa13b48f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e102.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE102 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 5bf6c71775fdce77c384735f5af8d1e34c0832c413246e729668d9a7f1dd15ce
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1