Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be44819fd5b8ca41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-08-03 23:54:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2adf96fb135d6a5e98c880a583377cc0 SHA-1: 305e6bebe2004a5a80f06da8da87edc2f11ccd6a SHA-256: be44819fd5b8ca41f6be312d473cd653c02e9552b03d1566f2efe2991c80daa0
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely to trick them into downloading further malware. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' finding strongly suggests the document's purpose is to deceive users into installing a fake browser update or extension, a common tactic for credential theft or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=oldboy+%282003%29+full+movie+english+subtitles+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec5dba6d866b6dae0f72be6201f69f42/1849718924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebrownsfamilyreunion2008.com/clients/81208/File/xozusebiwebenavelukeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cce830e662---vipimogotunarofire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100305403fb7---1596851581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susutour.com/userfile/file/8391015305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/nuxodomafurufutajalese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e62277d7079---dumugadoneferima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/rogoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ehrbs479u7sb4jkrtous3enrn/46819013735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086884f1e805---8735594253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepdaitruongphat.com/upload/ck/files/molipetogafifikuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210530_3C1E4B0E34EC4AFC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taylormadetc.com/siteadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vujerenigiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/26351435352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/butibaminawarukibisuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5pfdeuqn2fjpqvjcdqd8dgdc30/52603837952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3188a50a3e00c6ce4b94de2bed88219/diligag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6d22223402814a0d613da46cd0db66d/rikakile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ce99a939d---91331141238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xikelaganomib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/masanilezowojarariva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608462be29ae5---22962081593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/97576684956.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_off0000f4fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FB 18848 bytes
SHA-256: af700a024313c1b4c30bddb76df954419ca5d18d2cd00893adc9f443c9fb51ec
font_01_sfnt_off000124e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124E2 11804 bytes
SHA-256: db207178db99004b7d022ee58dff7eae49573d78c44ea828160cb419ce3eb058
font_02_sfnt_off000140ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1