Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 494498df08c3e7e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 06:04:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 50c5d1376d33ec88454c5374651155c2 SHA-1: 26cfac9cdbe659e33b173218febf8a951716e207 SHA-256: 494498df08c3e7e34f38656c7aa0eab9b35dc542b5d69b37b07996718179ef79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or appear to be disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm within a PDF to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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 http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631361141.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iddcr3u9lqtnl52uise92e88k1/95549575575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvcsoltau.de/userfiles/file/molikuwifoxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411b1c3d673---dexajulizekunebilomolenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamaopole.pl/userfiles/file/74922766071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acavacecio.it/userfiles/files/filovoferimediwimafapola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zizibasemodolipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/42884518066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/siziridipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d79ea1f60f---mezemijinapefagufanel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuk-amro.de/userfiles/file/nofimaliwajikogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jibugonefapanusajogixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataprint.ie/uploads/file/fuxomal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thoitranglani.com/upload/files/tabifarawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cermak-expo.cz/data/files/file/xademikelerono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/8081447977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoealora.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87944118944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b18718aee0949624f68849adb9be84a6/timodogobesogifosavip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuc-fac.com/uploadfiles/20210912144743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e5beaf48998267cdb8a5b7da7819abc/3999317607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=corrientes+administrativas+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.thc.gda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/datenuf.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_off0000afd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFD3 10712 bytes
SHA-256: dd0d4233cfe207ddd63d947c25dd4cfae0b6c3ded47be95af2ff0a90789a9ec3
font_01_sfnt_off0000c87a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC87A 14808 bytes
SHA-256: b5dab03ef9349013208aba9ff5813cc5cf2b7f348edf01e2d3284623ff9b7532
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1