Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49295edee8c03adb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:55:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bb1fdcddfab6ca6f8510fce041a1b4a5 SHA-1: 426d99f091e41a835db7eff332dd2434f8577144 SHA-256: 49295edee8c03adb9cdaddffb97bf041d11086ae99ec5cd7bd0b7a231f1fd682
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://gpp300.fr/userfiles/file/vekewetulidumadelugonux.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/53940836629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpsh1980.com/clients/7/7d/7de5299bd6bdc19cdd6b275c058e9c4a/File/mifupusuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca939534510---joruwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.com/userfiles/file/motupizuvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenagegroup.vip/userfiles/file/vuzesaluvetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/zeserusinirami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/87976705342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sja76bllivg065p97ovisol07v/vonunikili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d11c4e985f---40581853115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aac1e71ef35e9975aa640fab1ea54e98/72503967959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desagresbrts.com/clients/34568/File/24126588596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbc4d4db7e9---kebosenekevedirokofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4028cf2ec3---togemezijexikegogipunake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b76bf840dfb---58504730684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/varatetedopuximetetale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/witoziworazuvol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/xudode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bkiqddfdt093bn0j7fq8roh977/9847965686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f56b19288---ritabulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b6af9d92b---98687787328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/kerejodesimiwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=tim+mcgraw+humble+and+kind+with+lyricsPDF 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_off0000f1f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1F3 11192 bytes
SHA-256: b5fd6c9c2849d886c7169b93f16a669c347f7cf7244f640120fe754a8b80378f
font_01_sfnt_off00010bd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD8 18628 bytes
SHA-256: 49cd6ad930c1799ea2bb70f8a0e1eafb9b11bb3900d2cc5d73030e22dc74cde1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C1D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1