Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c44065de476ba25d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:21:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4987e4464ad4b080ebb4dc5f96227ffa SHA-1: b9ee16dac799c3bb1284fb62d1180241096f0588 SHA-256: c44065de476ba25d963fb23f0d4f3128bd1e3ca0714ce937d4ce0a127fa5d2f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of using link farms to direct users to potentially malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its true purpose, which is likely to lead users to phishing sites or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=multilateral+agreement+meaning
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d7654e9da2d139feb32daf81d00fa3d/titozagit.pdf
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j8u6gliemrsd87tsslfupcgr35/51809467789.pdf
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/betelukukazaxawiju.pdf
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeac8df7ffd06acff5cb8513a594cd1f/tevurowuravadu.pdf
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3645d8e042---kowejewukamo.pdf
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/nemefos.pdf
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89baf5f2741db26f35a12df00a87ea82/lubor.pdf
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/inn3sejqn74pr61m2kpd88t93a/pavufen.pdf
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6a77f8ebbf32cd9228899d7a6c727c3/42199079919.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hm9lnkm4e1mqrgr5g1isvr5ck1/jusajilupazufevuli.pdf
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v75ropa7l6i0cfulnib0tb8bu2/gukajojagawabejakop.pdf
    • http://nutranghongngoc.com/media/ftp/file/40984860662.pdf
    • http://chieusangducphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jugafu.pdf
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/boliruwivolakepu.pdf
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cd4c2313dc32f466b10dcf4c1cf90a6/79463116057.pdf
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/63849908756.pdf
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hih6bqiaf6l96ugm3pa9n32au0/23407397820.pdf
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjusjdokn4hn8ffolbdlaja97r/wofulinaxijuravos.pdf
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/gopisuwabukezawamuvamo.pdf
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8710f463d1---16426745699.pdf
    • http://skpizzasubs.com/uploads/files/8538256520.pdf
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b92e98fce---torani.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0d1.bin
0d4bc23bd4b407323bf67896ce4a41db0f15689dc73c32d65894d337430f9f28
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D1 17184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011df8.bin
0f9a6dab5d499fa555ae4c19fea2354a51e481cae8d1cc25cf7965f1cd1f864a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF8 10256 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000134f8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134F8 16792 bytes