Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e44940a161377df5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 15:35:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 33d0b29fa096b4101ebf8f0435b66dad SHA-1: 75d9c3a18e320c0e5f5ecd384152e62e0b774dd6 SHA-256: e44940a161377df5f567541dab8d3c3d8ef599ccbe969963ed936461df97389a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or redirection to further malware. The file's structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to lure users into clicking links that lead to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141c13919673---31262983977.pdf
    • https://tlkingatlan.hu/kepek/other/file/20294992057.pdf
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/81686462802.pdf
    • http://plusdesignwebsite.com/userfiles/file/35697442486.pdf
    • http://lica-mpt.it/userfiles/files/44263898404.pdf
    • https://mgs-on-track.com/uploads/misc/files/26575331929.pdf
    • http://hycxchina.com/filespath/files/20210907031812.pdf
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/zalasas.pdf
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/mafarigowutejukonuwapof.pdf
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021091123275620.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fbddc10830---3839657201.pdf
    • https://mttrasportisrl.it/dati/upload/file/zubebunifuwisamedurukomut.pdf
    • http://alotercuman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakobatavotogalisonom.pdf
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/rolujojagan.pdf
    • http://gestaocipa.com/public_html/Imagens/file/fotepijud.pdf
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/rotaxawutivorafewipug.pdf
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/92604655124.pdf
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f788c42b02---newubabikatinifofekataxak.pdf
    • http://hud101.vn/webroot/img/posts/files/wixewenakifu.pdf
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/gegazajuk.pdf
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/38280283194.pdf
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/47446786221.pdf
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/vilazekifuxidige.pdf
    • https://gimenezricarte-deltabogados.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28398350313.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=offline+brain+games
    • 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_off0000b4f6.bin
bed173e760d12cacf781f16acfb0df082e86365ce78eb184d3bbf0a626392c61
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4F6 10504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccd1.bin
934f6857469563b2a98b37d8b938ee9bdcd10e4317fe4f866eea9d2168d65920
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCD1 16020 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f59c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59C 16792 bytes