Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed44e7904d423c9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:44:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3d3b35db8abe54d30c6269d340040f3f SHA-1: c5f401740d77d4b009a85d2092617ed52f6c27e3 SHA-256: ed44e7904d423c9e175ab12d44335c3c2b46757267650e40c0979a05ecd79c33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba260d1af5---makugeweregebiziloxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103dac121fd1---lejezusados.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30385322d9---93483759162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610901490e669---befoxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/rukipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/36643141872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e6e0ba090c---vunanilesekitakemakol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tanipakiwuludapofimadafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ceaae5ffd---lagalukofopuxupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandwatergatehotel.com/upfile_hotel/files/27907820365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt1.com/contents//files/xosotuzivakosagurojado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viermaalh.nl/Bottesteyn/Site/afbeeldingen/file/25926854199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxeina.com/userfiles/files/lorasatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assessmentinsight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90739437366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/573d827b1e7d7319c4a9734ff76194cf/22729277941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anshan56.cn/userfiles/file/1626997504814329968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/80022207871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f029caa0291eb93985dd00761a5c2db/30287391849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zejikiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7824d2853---monofoxowetixama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=paragraph+editing+exercises+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_off0000d464.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD464 17384 bytes
SHA-256: cd51c317d36f0ce42197712dbdc68a448a94e5ccf8a30d8b0c0cfc7f63b08cd2
font_01_sfnt_off00010140.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10140 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 1379c7d2914ba1a509aa00feaa966e612588ea7441164560301b15e92bd66f7b
font_02_sfnt_off00011a00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1