Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b441f77310685de0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 04:43:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4d57932f176900a6adb5cd23c724f5c8 SHA-1: 6e39d9999ff72f4c7a7d8db9d78792d8869c28a5 SHA-256: b441f77310685de0442a1c98a66eef53337108fde9fe3e1891945726e8998d49
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to download further malicious content or visit phishing sites. The presence of external URIs and a link farm heuristic further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/putita.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b85fd7839---75731801127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d96ea871f2---51094948812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609858137f657---52105792423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24362557286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://targdenunti.ro/userfiles/file/jiromijinivebejejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7f0550f78---85131965981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/gadeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876fd0ee645---wepurixuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce29073fd04af6937ce69158a0e385fd/vadekadipeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8fb5912d681112b7a3e8599ff0927b9/newuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b18f42897d8fff35d04e0ae75f586356/nawovamutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/kavafer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/bibitomidutipimunimadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whalesart.com/uploadfile/file///2021061208143969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf3491f932---linivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/33745859545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/papukulobinujavono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duproject.com/uploadEditor/files/nidaberimofufozegizujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080db247f3e8---bolesibufibemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15d3af2f8af124ea776f0543b7cd12b5/sikepinuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d28b3a0056---20693755036.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/33924086382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=significant+3+digit+numbersPDF 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_off0000ee37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE37 11140 bytes
SHA-256: eb0e253e291a5086c9097aed3c369fa831d3b4af83d1a011dad83eb2a5a52f38
font_01_sfnt_off0001080e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1080E 17300 bytes
SHA-256: e5e7eafb7a69dabe90bc4085160ec8b60b2a5ae37c1eed4b657d272d33ef3bc8
font_02_sfnt_off00013542.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13542 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1