Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f44bc9c6f4a29df8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 17:09:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6d70e856a0a2834014a4f22aeaf53711 SHA-1: 902bace9af86064f803cca42f1309036ae9aa00e SHA-256: f44bc9c6f4a29df84ae5e2bc3c59e9ec05d5e1c0b98150637f7166ef76716631
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple links, including one on 'argentum.com' within a 'super-forms' plugin directory, suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/fuvunifegeloluwuxegufut.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aadharshilaschool.org/userfiles/file/35631103317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afoa.org.ar/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotavajabolexidefikafuxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spharma.ua/files/file/91721726228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://herfection.herfection.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210907181439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/79331293877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuadiemtayninh.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/16859845646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torby.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75366207790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/28159891640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15f6c1db7284643f6bfa4bea7004ad12/fupinirapuloluvolisavoxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydent.hu/editor_up/fowububobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamalcar.com/userfiles/file/64363606013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlpd1d9fgf9m4mpar94qs1g0tp/34328433691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bompentax.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/raturufex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papianiarch.it/userfiles/files/32571267284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613043dc2238e---3539875065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eba2a18444b7b1f1e88b80e8ab5dcb2d/28791652136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elearning-chemistry.ro/userfiles/file/ripazimaboletaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ljlconst.com/admin/images/file/57390935826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/37865179910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86dcbacf2b586ecc06ef655f52b1f050/zovopebefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senseoftourism.dk/userfiles/file/73834098089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bapassamarinda.id/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/54252203869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaifilmind.com/UserFiles/file/patatemumulalejidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tttinox.com/upload/userfiles/files/17411045360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecpa.fr/uploaded/file/kasegagexuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trubaopt.ru/content/file/gomoguxigitadanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=lego+life+apkPDF 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_off0000d740.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD740 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 989a29be86a3d884882347b2f1cb62f2d7e56b9b5825d346e56a5f9bc2b9c3cf
font_01_sfnt_off000104e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E9 10112 bytes
SHA-256: b9428901615a20e20bf38d276f6a09a8ede7b0d7eeb04f27e60acf4b352dc519
font_02_sfnt_off00011b91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1