Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c44016d6da432105…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-08-27 10:05:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 812b080dbb2c3799a88c77cf6b73c384 SHA-1: d69af39f3df19e9bf05951210cf32953d5c9f37a SHA-256: c44016d6da4321055166ee363868aa3f4ae0c2a78af3e49ae848c347be9a0dc3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and a potential phishing or malware distribution vector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document contains numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or leverage compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://bachson.net/upload/file/jopuru.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/jakagazifafote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangs78.com/clients/66216/File/mawinudenukepabajorepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dcd2ddf38fede876ddcdac117abd995/bekut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcot.org/userfiles/file/73390488443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607789c81b2f0---sevitesemuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/61883643928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6sesaagefjeek4d66ur133sken/94780747858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/jonipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bea00eb3fe758bad7f1957e430f8d81/fazuwekemijulexubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/75143059859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/55058640356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gwynharmon.com/home/gwyn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34440779594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creatinglifeoptions.com/userfiles/files/25429510430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppntassone.it/dati/upload/file/62059486327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/317c71962612e2c0b8a38ffce8950b75/sesusidoxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.portaldasfreguesias.com/portugal/vianadocastelo/vianadocastelo/geraz_do_lima_sta_maria/ckeditor/ckfinder/file/jazetekonebunufuvova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4365188cb8---62977762728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c0b01660d---28096772469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81743620273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b53f5b56784---pezuworosatelot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/ranebudiwukesog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/fozumunexijokagebul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ef37e2c388376b573e959e25d8e5245/27852265772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/jinukoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc0fd3e2e3---waten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=formula+for+finding+no+of+molesPDF link annotation
    • https://medlineplus.gov/moles.htmlIn 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_off0000e20d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE20D 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 66ce110c0956c1221809164cbdc9e0bf0517569d4fd3d91bedf043cbdaa9da4a
font_01_sfnt_off00010f9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B5 10676 bytes
SHA-256: b1baafe6f4d2ec41e09f4f2c7dfc2620d260b9cebda66b1829affe78b142cea1