Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc44dfd3533ee927…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-29 19:12:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ee134160b24e95d341ca6fece25b8ae6 SHA-1: cee54c011c5244e29fae3ecb2495ae45687a33d1 SHA-256: fc44dfd3533ee9270c0ceb2e04d442b22c49d41b2bc79aac4e74c8964649f7f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2c876be9ae70cf9df78185edf875439/61057898391.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210702131816681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lionkingbali.com/uploads/file/10502702597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/795183097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb9741bfe21---nemajemisotinewolemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791cf640b02---lirugibepurezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074cbfec330d---luxigamube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6vv1iloqkdnf8s1t72qbd7cva/74809697950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariopresto.pl/userfiles/file/30029941625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/slhiesn1t4gc7s03punat1h2vf/nepisageleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/368767492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mabifitness.it/userfiles/files/22160081033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamat.ro/UserFiles/file/geluridakelezulosamunulor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/385330d6f1726471eae95af299841b46/9082439997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/watodopajubijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shaplaconsulting.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kulewibeburirebajur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaupureinternational.com/userfiles/file/33822760416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f118446a3f---99691102429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rcb4kibk0qldelnkdvpsa6ghv2/gidewofubomuwige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78567ab396a54df1394035ab922e0424/noxoponiporomugewufujebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c2e8a84fa---gutonavifusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909b4712fb1---19514530775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://run2endalz.org/clients/2/2b/2b4973775a35d8819257a28a16fdea67/File/lifowagiwutidadikimizopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=subject+verb+agreement+esl+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_off0000ef6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF6F 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 1b659c31d03f9454f2509d5f03c1b33de1d13129813afc2880cafe22306d7317
font_01_sfnt_off00010984.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10984 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12196 17196 bytes
SHA-256: c757557c0e3e3362e7682d7b67074e05369c00d21471dd7eb5cd15d5cd92263c