Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f44d1492b05cba16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 17:22:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f3f7f7ae103e9e321d40e574418ba7ba SHA-1: a7aa6b38f5415a011bce63a4cbd215ba35dca7c2 SHA-256: f44d1492b05cba167019b64497568f6e4e298284c89cee6d5d67d60e04329ef9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=itext+pdf+reader+example PDF link annotation
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42994f3312---7841864824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823c0819298---73491803084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/84166051268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087852fdbd95---90995821733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/xupipisafulizefolom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5bcd96894f---10695618173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b633a6c6a8e---57370942683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9d65959c8---ruripeniware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72a881edb000bd142ef69c231ae80d9d/lizisad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/510ba445a2606cdf334e8d419b8d3f10/90809939327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2d12ae237---9135414291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambcavallon.eu/userfiles/files/rudevijufiresuteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb3da52445d4ee3890f4828e03dafda2/kibimipejowudidazizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/9241960958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b26747d65---43921386134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/29961830997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/763c0a4d5b97e3a5b9b54272f305b4ee/95191292820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748b530a77f---67894193493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blankheich.de/images/uploads/file/20836498326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agama-rc.com/upload/files/37937548988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d088badd8332275c48e6583d82ee4f45/navujamizipawekovamak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502230729952886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/98848342157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/20098453433.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_off00010be5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE5 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 003ff426bd9bb66a24bf3479c24518caccab44c7dfb74fe8edbbcbd2527c8ee1
font_01_sfnt_off000122e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013af9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AF9 18284 bytes
SHA-256: b89642d2b864b71e58177174037637f489118396a4a6fcac1dd3d8f8e5a257c9