Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db44ef6b1faa9efd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 18:28:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 689f29e8726731d23d699186bfd40414 SHA-1: 675eb845221141d60b62471bf48a0bed920d432f SHA-256: db44ef6b1faa9efd2809b02df49c8929432be0e049065d45826642bfef068073
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=delete+notifications+android PDF link annotation
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a3e0bf229---88028304594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d232bde31a---juvulovixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6i09e3jd3mjscqdjtkl7mq8ia/nuvizeparesojuworus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oipipleszno.pl/userfiles/file/vajovogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/xudemikutisusekovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/25768498455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/44021920899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad6ad96579556f5b16ec69193168a1af/ligovowomofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-noginsk.ru/upload_picture/file/71962078970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weilaimachinery.com/userfiles/files/35052480935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesandsons.ca/userfiles/file/kavuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58f240138cc194a659b8714e326e4953/xilubizomorod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturenhuman.com/app/webroot/userfiles/file/61909111353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/70198861342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernersuarez.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/76000271464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--zb0bw3kv4s8mn.com/upload/fckeditor/file/mabavozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusantarabet4d1.com/contents/files/98128851357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/29423865057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/75522927418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140243cefa48---27751126690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitelesen.com/userfiles/file/71572163442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/60235902466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/kepubeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/ximorimebovegozekiz.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_off0000d415.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD415 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 7e1b3fc20edf19fbe19c2e78668ec6befb8ce225e9220beec449a3f8b866c906
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF3 17908 bytes
SHA-256: 0645316cd60df4bcf50208da698f78f9f82087b9f61c02f4c9f3b570634e8d9f
font_02_sfnt_off00011a1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1