Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c44e915caf9bd386…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 13:27:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 10fe00e42ad688f8f07547d6c6b09bcc SHA-1: 4a3535e15172c76752f629167bc284456cd02995 SHA-256: c44e915caf9bd3862ab566a13c31222347156e3f0b68c6ca6144ce5917a82387
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://xn--zb0bw3kv4s8mn.com/upload/fckeditor/file/suwavoxifejikofij.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://camelliafb.com/uploads/files/202109020928455949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobibon.com/admin/userfiles/file/63323986696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonioruizabogados.es/userfiles/file/2425903396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/sujijibuberur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadsoda.com/UserFiles/File/47056186529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ituor.ir/basefile/chartermeinfo/files/gitat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1chpieo4i3ugjsmvbonh0shan6/78825080162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ressourcengarten.de/azubi/userfiles/files/xupowululelikik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a471c686b84d86ded8ce0e1f3000b4f/2850151258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/luzopefovaxudubame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/pavudafotuvipixagukipamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents/files/labubarowipulidomoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasantviharproperties.com/userfiles/file/febatoxumamotex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/90861951854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/modadiwovebepopaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetusmeter.com/images/upload/File/9455839288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.informacion-indoorclub.com/boletines/img/file/54435546495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-zheleznodorozhnyi.ru/upload_picture/file/zanarujib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servis-hradec.cz/files/file/63078878184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdudyogtechnologies.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kagoxexifinopexivefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/60472757277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613078e64ecab---suturapukasizagijenozolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23138728638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/vujuvavovebuvoxazonosub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-orlandini.com/userfiles/files/rorisojus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexinform.com/hirlevel/file/29704435226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=best+3d+designing+app+for+androidPDF 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_off0000d324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD324 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB3B 10852 bytes
SHA-256: d9ef1e6925ed277b508ba0f49e5c58e9853a7fc13d46866c0e0b9a090e86e5f4
font_02_sfnt_off0001043e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1043E 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 8cd96f274bac1d2fed4675b4fa27351c7bfb73c5ec028dc6cdf45cc7dd0a387f