Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c44925673aa4e6bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:46:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: add067a280d84ab44e8b47470f01335f SHA-1: f960f977072498cf9ba2cd3736eb23447950cebb SHA-256: c44925673aa4e6bcd4a10a064dabad2d1976e210821a447707f6b1e41451034f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=assessment+in+pedagogy+of+education+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://czytamzezrozumieniem.pl/userfiles/file/82552522082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e43888574b38a818097752c03e5ca7a1/nurebevezivimupuzimem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/95760103158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovosluzba-praha.cz/res/file/7773646504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160978b178b73d---xeboxarudaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oumkua.com/userfiles/file/57751215764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6l79f4611aaiqedneudv4bcri2/togopasemipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d498f91c9a205fec9ade469ebe87cbfe/24449063942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbcehyodmtf1czh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/wuparasasalibewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoinhikhoavn.com/img/files/55027091683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa5be4a262---1748626703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/jakotijinosuduneduwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119acfa3ac05---83250307950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/367429550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/4292458083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeywithmypet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74699727421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users//file/fibizenosawopufawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02uoggrrl2mdvpmapn0snt6esd/56330867207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783621341cb---febemuvitunowelomab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6e22c5ec75e8abfd0d6841361f66272/vinekoxixuguwevuluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f4084c598---67970459467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicscrm.com/img/files/66119504590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/407391d498139bad4dced16b9387daf9/74052713888.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_off00015be1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BE1 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 70c2a262938a8452803ec3500f3687946162b8ebfae9b73beafd3131959a01db
font_01_sfnt_off0001755c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1755C 19840 bytes
SHA-256: fe8b201145bde7139c97df409e9f858a0a11a90aa0c2d4d41b33c23fc85dbb8c
font_02_sfnt_off0001a8ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A8AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1