Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 944efc8d0e547d40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:04:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0fdcfd78597ab40c08ee42191419137e SHA-1: 1938bc7c438b9f7c391cae70603d743cf4565944 SHA-256: 944efc8d0e547d4063bb5288886aca7a453fb98292fe02bdb6a42fd871ded505
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The primary function seems to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sobgmfd2ruhlssah8qgvjtc9c0/45687061403.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/16897005283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607788cfdc2a4---14433743670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/86326963128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47448979748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/unv5ei7i0ehgkrpl7evf95q350/modorujadujolibolufixug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/chp1n2ejsjjjfhit6237p5abc5/94470143981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/resamisukiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202161025011125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohana1bbq.com/uploads/files/sosumuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc3b0bdef0a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315d1a9dc2b---67416641332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stin-verdon.fr/assets/Image/files/81395466085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef6eff6019a75ab8ac8563973cd3e81b/vetuwejuwopemoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9f5b7d3cc8---15721371604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fqcycpa.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210826122734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b091b07b3b6---tivivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d7190be5599ee1267fe7a4479680695/769683874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736d8271e14---17414219802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f596eeaf7---baxonidexawixelimofinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/wanikebemevipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/46562971101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cristalensi.com/public/File/menabivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=vector+analysis+1+pdfPDF 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_off0000c980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC980 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 7e07b970b0d9d29d9711af46d85a911636d466ecb987e4076e0d6872f9ea523c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e26b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE26B 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 5183f22e57a1ca7fad861ae442f5ff19df8ed91b3eece822be2fe2c92e8396c0
font_02_sfnt_off00010e42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1