Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 493d73179533b493…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 05:00:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0b1214079de7a6091a182671303be939 SHA-1: 2b552ea35ff754b506c901de19683bebeee704c2 SHA-256: 493d73179533b4934ce29bc2ff2317e4c72a1d824d61742b151125c860415dad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs further supports the attack pattern of luring users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ios+rpg+2021 PDF link annotation
    • https://happyjourney.webtrails.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kedudajuziborozorotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzhangqin.com/uploadfile/files/92791811738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcwan.com/userfiles/file/dotino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161350b6fa135d---kalojusedoziwite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/loridugebubenivuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vignolaweb.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fijujavokirutitoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taigesw.com/upload/files/39283201204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/8894301599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be-now.pl/userfiles/file/tajedasusugekudenonolapit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/pirugogubipawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130cbc5106c6---jijufozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f76812b06---18567685963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lulanjina.net/upload/files/sezenububobaxesog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikahaiphong.com/images/news/files/71183942282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-9/file/1769420754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394d627c026---mivixizenifujuxixepida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrodomesticaruano.com/images/ckfinder/files/xefibutujomul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/8795331764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dominoliberec.eu/images/file/files/pojusixizukez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392c99c433e---48497827050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0frq87kfjdfcr0lv7390p3h4po/lubitokomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/nexotawosikavugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forexinc.ca/upload/editor/file/bovemokewumaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imbirimbir.ru/files/wunifoliwajosugode.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_off0000e219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE219 16600 bytes
SHA-256: bfa364b49c3ae4709be21c30eadb6d6225eb2a85e9007e7279f4b3790784b624
font_01_sfnt_off00010cdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CDC 10036 bytes
SHA-256: 08368142675655acc8b8d8c2449f2d574069283e0b0f082216f247773609543a
font_02_sfnt_off00012343.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12343 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1