Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e44b540abdb5824a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:38:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9d89426cb13f9df0f255e72bb82e21bc SHA-1: 800ba3838be7686983d9ccff62237c06fc7682e6 SHA-256: e44b540abdb5824ab9fb8a2f9adba27575e6a9b8251e8b1bfe0b297d5bf9a53a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to domains that are either compromised or appear to be disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a lure to direct users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/37415437597.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/jikisajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16075e98ab9118---26028646885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca5cb49706---tipufapej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0688061676---kejerojujigaraput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/kuniborosonigevodezis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecandrychow.pl/Image/files/93468023144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implantsdentairesdesmoulins.com/upload/editor/file/gepozejinepomegadaxegeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3a66b782a---remog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/64978889955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/46299000550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9af0c896c---80583912181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventexevent.se/uploads/file/taliwidudavatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatdarshan.net/rgroup/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15383666522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1ced1fab14fc96b6feb2085eb21472f/zodofibazujesoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/zemumufavidetafarudowato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/32397246284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delshadian.com/public/userfiles/file/vajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f855833d2947306edb911a3de7c0ebf/labadudofiboxugulatom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/veneji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/17697154254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newsru.md/upload/userfiles/files/60966087240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gm10oh03ep33d5dpi9snp9med7/42118379981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vukidijixidinapusofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=modalverben+im+pr%C3%A4teritum+pdfPDF 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_off0000df47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF47 19640 bytes
SHA-256: 73895a2f5e5bed03ff4603d7419ac353cb5440295a1d477de267ffeb3abf21b5
font_01_sfnt_off000110e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12900 11044 bytes
SHA-256: a6a39456d3620023242eb8b207433bc227545aafef10f95af3dc1097230af319