Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49175b8dd45025ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-14 04:44:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: aecaedbac51f04ddaf91ab167c6b9dcd SHA-1: 80c588a68bef117a0c4ff8b730edc874974fdcbf SHA-256: 49175b8dd45025caf4ff830ff593f93c47b718d2cc5ec354cc9adf43b7ee20e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest the document's purpose is to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=middle+names+that+go+with+violet PDF link annotation
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e433ac2eef042222d77d65b4cd4fc204/91855275202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/getorubaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziconiavip.com/uploadfck/file/nokevikoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbdc.co/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72687551439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917c7015034---batupomerejusopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestwingsbeltsville.com/uploads/files/74103500629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/29457551562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792900e7b00---xapenusizike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969de287c8d---sepaxoparunagivor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewheightsalumni.com/clients/79364/File/dozomukusajoreza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de7f6e6aed---nabeboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9262895.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50209952491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4001f0ffe---43094970783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/91030595788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882ab32f6c2---98807907290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/sogozobokovokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22005a0bc4---fatodobokit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6960c80bfc---neguxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/19518117688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed83c2fee1914de278031bc1a357eda4/legosaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/mifopiboganisexatije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-16/20210516114611813074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/872f0e1917c611283ea7c7c46843ebd3/22593892123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/13107277706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607446fbdac75---96306800201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a1skkfbcj686u39pl40rkk6l2/giruxapexifemekezoroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607905bf00e33---zitoxukitibukubeluga.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_off0000f5ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FF 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 3fa549ec14e5b93fad78e38ec8dd56b1c902eac7c5242bf8070ff58d6d4386ab
font_01_sfnt_off00010e4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E4F 18624 bytes
SHA-256: 6103f1efaf954ef46d8f0357c37bcc85835fd5b88736c1be63b55da582b05c02
font_02_sfnt_off00013e5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1