Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 005049e72893d915…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-09 01:43:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 67ca1b4b336b3b01bdd0e40744a2a815 SHA-1: 37f1bd1bb3d34a25efcb6c1a0cd1926dfdd995ce SHA-256: 005049e72893d915c0ae531fbec2bb19c373ead790427a8fb4244936984da13c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an intent to lure users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ultra+moon+legendary+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/duc8foo75n36p0h2jnk4jskjo2/81515439715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gmjl030l84ahu8aq1k8h4p4l0f/26560725075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/75975146926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://51-lq.com/userfiles/file/%5C/43596641367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8516e959ce---jugokobefuralazuduxarixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e64ab4f74eadfbd348652f731cbe9d2/34292669567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/800294ee8a83e2a87cc8cc7a2b1393be/28681010214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77fdb511b2900bbd043e962a22bf729f/tibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/puzafatarese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4545d4ced---zezuboxoxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c84b2a8c23---wubozijifewobemusojusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab3e7f51651c229bc276bd966e8ef333/kenozetumisekinafuzefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/189d8d36aea2c560b5c3130a9e65510f/75974898962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dda2fd0282d5fb3bf88d3d0c987b21d/nuzifupikujunelipotat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7c6074b59---kevadixobukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/80949280991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092290571e19---15368733802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e734.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE734 11560 bytes
SHA-256: 6fbff8cfeb16d68c500a2814aae1ab47acbd5b122d5102a99555311222298008
font_01_sfnt_off00010dbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DBB 5060 bytes
SHA-256: 7c4c9961b3c5c6f823c6479e790a1286685686d7470538f68adc9c761de1ef29
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE0 11576 bytes
SHA-256: 63372d254ad27247b7c80ab10a971389ef0c26131bbd65cf9aa400e985caa41e