Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 944e60b409429a8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:54:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 8b63aa3ebbbb6ebe11acad7c439beeb3 SHA-1: 8804b26a4b90e0db799e4727375e9c37fb7cee76 SHA-256: 944e60b409429a8cb86596e1db624f0fc01d6840841e552517e3b683dfaa8a36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the primary goal is to direct users to external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+work+meaning+in+tamil PDF link annotation
    • http://studio70.eu/userfiles/files/43026711980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/ginetuwotumolezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/pegixazupodevedabekuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonkuehner.de/gfx/userfiles/files/28195834561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9qkk2r7csq9m43om6amkcvim81/vikorewixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teranor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86908914953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4c97ac885a---96049582409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obk09a7m1qfeuddg7bpksuf2l1/30186268040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec31a635e4---77837316128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729bc47654e---zufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20c6c4c195741984a0f7e3360b662049/94399860897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781684a837d---mesuloxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newshieldinsurance.com/demo/gsa/final/images/file/74262634728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healhumanity.foundation/userfiles/file/rutaxuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/gofomisakelowarelobud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6eb6d9bd5d---rurivesemum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e9452832ea4---11735456522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/pewujifufujiguwimena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebiz.kr/userData/board/file/22551293024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janandpoos.com/clients/872640/File/woxuvumejarukuvodopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6124b2b67be5d4a7a8497a5206800244/bupeluwizonawupikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoevalledeabdalajis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73308104618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/55634500671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e58c765ed---niwudibijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galaxyjewel.cn/uploadfile/files/53884960137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/dipadejisanukada.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_off0000fa3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3B 18020 bytes
SHA-256: 4bfddf87f432d50f8ddbb0ad8f53955df68804c47a73d667912e8264493c0fb2
font_01_sfnt_off00012874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12874 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001408b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1408B 10556 bytes
SHA-256: a9b9268f6c7b5593a93a72ce0b6bcfbcec9baa203eccfc21a822d81c91862e5d