Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 049b27ccc166dc7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 16:24:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b0432959050016e0dce830a6cb867f45 SHA-1: 64d98a9dcbdeca065363a6d12a72889eb7ced916 SHA-256: 049b27ccc166dc7d95eeac088055282e972f897d36f5d48dd384797c876a2474
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, including one pointing to a raw IP address, and heuristics suggest it functions as a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable infrastructure. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pes+latest+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/5699743541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smwebtechnology.com/arishayurveda.com/userfiles/file/giwitadajururudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dialogueinpraxis.net/files/docs/rasubaximak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gizmakina.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/89149784762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c7abc6386d---sunixelagerire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2261024b621c302c6a0ad1b90d0aa887/51551843773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/244a86903fd8289d00f80c4bce7a9bf3/41528372942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duvanco.be/docs/files/zijibofenazoxixesojelufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermea.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tonezamogefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/tuwironofuxusutori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcyy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/falamifosarudizewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6cc450e12---62532908003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutitar.com/user_img/files/17799884896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_B072E131829DE46B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/nepuduputuwodaj.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://habitat3.eu/userfiles/files/dupowumugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagoproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20844852025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iiiemjobs.com/FCK_Editor_Images/files/94540908640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esteticka-stomatologie.cz/files/content/file/69809115884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zl369.net/userfiles/file/52937201300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210918_C901837BC6654A00.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_off0000d761.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD761 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF73 18836 bytes
SHA-256: 2708a8ebc1883377cf9295a7ec06559dcf4f6bcfa8deb0e391c6b5c17e21acf9
font_02_sfnt_off000120e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E0 9924 bytes
SHA-256: 3b4aebbfd002cbcd3ddea9fa0d7c32dcca1abcb4613ace0056687a45292dd5ee