Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a444db7be7eb8005…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:09:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 575b9cbe6e9e6a066b0fc889dfbfee1f SHA-1: 70ca1168fd21508d29ad983747fe3f7325c56426 SHA-256: a444db7be7eb80054b323c4b54de87c2efc44b9609d28fc85632e1c8149c39cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this malicious intent. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rich+dad+poor+dad+telugu+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371eba686d9---kezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5469dea694cae24569a1c893c7523af3/58322868589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queenart.kr/userData/board/file/57681492513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shjkyq.com/up_files/FCK/file/xaraboberutexivopirixaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/vemigesevopatoxugijeliral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimetoor.com/basefile/bimetoorir/files/14200757255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biznesfishki.ru/files/userfiles/files/lajedoviramimujapomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinching.com/uploadpic/files/202109011637168316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actinq.nl/upload/file/kopexav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d19017363e---57240843052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/9868000577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiofruits.com/admin/uploads/files/3978918577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386d879537f---dotokamujuwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/79562909850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saluteebenesseresas.it/userfiles/files/nojuviparapujegegepojepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/23539436935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bolahijau.com/contents/files/pabexujutifakoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/zovuzogodapawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/984f2985c775e2dfa1fc8c96c6e4b966/bewajexijigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/46068217344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/wujigibadavefomarezoneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travel-door.com/userfiles/file/dudibemivixaxovenafibevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/14932439294.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_off0000fa82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA82 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11294 19680 bytes
SHA-256: 7be125bdc0afb63c338389ab4b7b1c8823f58641b1e82cf90ba4e2e9a962a126
font_02_sfnt_off00014531.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14531 10960 bytes
SHA-256: d805bdf5ead2aa9b1ea4cc64763439af57c26a679accdd422f7d4699fb14229f