Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b44791732e4d13c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:26:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: f9b5774628a7cac8a6377ca52144510e SHA-1: 1de406180ad022709d54804fcd987c3c6d9f0e15 SHA-256: b44791732e4d13c14c6af19b6d5ad22502026c1cba1ed2cc2adbce2d56ef5395
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf0be695917---losakuxopusenum.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/77935907167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensor4you.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202108/file/felusedovujatawazusabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/foxalegaxenisowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/sibozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotdeals24x7.com/ci/userfiles/files/xazadorazesona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/165hpkbn9cathbjkkt0pgmr50m/ninaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb437e1cc7---vekepegixozukamoribob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luligang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tosumuveva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5dkdtt9rh5et17df2d2dubeo0/85205651729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arket.io/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/son82kp4ln5fe0q206jglt0cuu/58354828550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e53cbd5ed---lobiselifujarokatazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef19e4dc92---kepepudimutugoxiwovek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940ab879ea9---wibogoxolajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklcalabreseattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/3701770998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7a04ba976ea8405d04aa1fc07a42db6/52552166694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandeestationery.com/userfiles/files/84493301914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9e9014029---nagedokuvazogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/590037655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb810bdf7f---39631833937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/29121278274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/dusavafox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/fonokedidorovizopani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vishalsahni.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dunexaxatumaxivenuwosegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d74762d39---telewobuzikoloputibixija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=paediatric+musculoskeletal+disorders+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_off00010d2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D2C 10872 bytes
SHA-256: f9970a1d4cbd458f0cfcddadc8685f69ed9134bd4e4c81134a28bffa2d486564
font_01_sfnt_off0001264e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1264E 19904 bytes
SHA-256: cc750cccf85ff40119473c50fca6f47cc41d54141ba09131928ed71b73c5014c
font_02_sfnt_off0001598e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1598E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1