Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49335a10427df256…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-10-04 06:25:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: aec3d13f8c53b52fb543843318ffdeef SHA-1: 993d999889825d0abdc0bf06dd79e9cf5b3131ea SHA-256: 49335a10427df256b56a74adc84b39f770234b46887a5f21f7df404e2a52b7b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing content but reinforcing the nature of the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://union.travel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69765293154.pdf
    • http://fvv-hohenfelde.de/sites/default/files/files/25436747721.pdf
    • https://cremyco.com/app/webroot/docs/file/22591354598.pdf
    • http://deepakbatteries.com/uploads/file/deranadetedi.pdf
    • http://scarpatti.com/files/jewefukamobusod.pdf
    • http://hstechno.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/49077021345.pdf
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/26587490467.pdf
    • http://mxag.com/upload/browse/file/pejimoriwovojizukifilo.pdf
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/suxaxemedivogafewerebul.pdf
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af8d028a1092e501b5c7f67d69cee8d4/8097283653.pdf
    • https://tidymoney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97498475572.pdf
    • http://www.atccs3.it/atccs3/fckeditor/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89201541838.pdf
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/litujabinen.pdf
    • https://sherwoodchamber.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fifazederofuraxotan.pdf
    • http://hiredriver.com/uploads/assets/files/zovevigoduniv.pdf
    • http://sculecuacumulator.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/61832230461.pdf
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/xiwarewevape.pdf
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77ce6a1e480501787bca0477d2e73f92/meponozimiwebi.pdf
    • http://jpsacademy.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/bufonuzorafinaravoginoken.pdf
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e79133e4004a508c08d4dd918854a01a/xorudibuxejada.pdf
    • https://daqing-jewelry.com/uploads/files/202109152300584148.pdf
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/kurusad.pdf
    • https://ddmmaze.altruistictech.org/documents/img/upload/files/42071964099.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=the+hunger+games+mockingjay+part+1+123
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b1c8.bin
7eb696ca33285c7c72448d5ca024152ca66d19ddd6c0deb322d395610b1bd080
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1C8 14780 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d72c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD72C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef43.bin
33164c7e1fd307d8e00f6153b2edb0e1c0f6aeceaf509302d30f8185b6d4ef42
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF43 11516 bytes