Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db44ce3418e8c6cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-24 13:15:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 78c904cdc1f99fab179ac8a46c641c38 SHA-1: d7c19dc805006fdf3af4f752fc4b356af0871856 SHA-256: db44ce3418e8c6cd189edc5a73a010c4debb3579c96093eaa0eab19388f03559
181 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm designed to lure users towards pirated content, as indicated by the 'PDF_PIRACY_STREAMING_LURE' heuristic. Several URLs point to PDF files hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a distribution mechanism for malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • PDF advertises pirated movie streaming/download medium PDF_PIRACY_STREAMING_LURE
    PDF rendered text advertises free full-movie streaming or download using piracy-brand names or a 'full movie + download/free/watch' intent phrase — recovered after folding the styled Unicode confusables the campaign uses to hide those keywords from plain-text detection. These are disposable SEO-spam carriers that route users to malvertising, fake-player, and scam pages; the PDF itself is inert.
  • 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://www.eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68365925689.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lmalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/12986186227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/28552257419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c5fa6ac480---tadefaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firsttimehomebuyerstudy.com/images/file/76754863108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioesflores.pl/obrazy/file/44085460303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stluciachamber.org/uploadedImages/contentImg/file/diwajudomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhlongan.com/upload/files/71786490873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettranslators.com/webroot/img/files/xevoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massarentearchitettura.com/userfiles/files/nobogevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balaton.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/gewisizenetaravepisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yachtales.net/admin/userfiles/files/kixulekukobedunoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://producedepot.us/userfiles/files/tevarubakolujazomoxanuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/148b555d8ee73f22afebe97c45d37568/49162913327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/rikewepaxejitatanozet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovelyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53160311056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///2021090121336_967840915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuakeobinhduong.com/upload/files/befodaxusitedolozud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khaskhaan.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/40588412893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lixtech.com.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/72451930772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1da1b9649---gerividolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144cf7b3116b---nufijinilaginul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huijingweb.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-22/20210922153119272418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chamdure.com/DATA/files/muvefusalitikunudufuraru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/fupawulokapakaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=iso+maker+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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000b4ef.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000b4ef.bin)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b4ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD06 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 4150bf8abfd18c3293804fd41cff72a9ceb2c249a400b34ca171fa660bd740f6
font_02_sfnt_off0000e429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE429 18068 bytes
SHA-256: 441cbff349332480224055277ed8d3410e1084e253c79e2934ca81cf246b5849