Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49599fb985a1d9af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-25 00:24:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1b6c09a45d99963655efc8d83b9ef32c SHA-1: 392fe5da8a4b6697529c38ecd401981f500e5884 SHA-256: 49599fb985a1d9afd09443f92106a5bd114d0acf59200ce0f5454da5c9037689
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are identified as compromised CMS upload directories. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfa7f1cf0a6fbf64fd8aaddcb2e5fa33/lewipave.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/93054176189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/12260646179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33e34bcaddb5ba600ed22880a974ea36/xuletupibulewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba99af2ab0a---40447897231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kfdqdqsl5ottotda7rrvummsh4/diwitina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/99016462725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6eefa8f5d---xemikofujojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ad72a0e16---80304715271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///lagurikutipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/nofiromaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vip0j5febn2np9joluhn5repo0/4843994007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motorradfreunde-toggenburg.ch/up/files/96713716096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xomuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68e18fb42204010edf2c31627f60d702/7709831747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rv30k6og2ha6aj3r7eopkjsdh/jilenovatixogiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32202567661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/22393424321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/gukukewetuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babamore.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210625140554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607685b057abf---16718995256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c79a4fedf34---kipiguvumikozudodiwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitree.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86209467816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=syncope+nursing+care+planPDF 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_off0000f0ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CA 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 1485b7beeeceb1df04b004f813eddb0def098ce86e0037c8a5d3fe2717ed111b
font_01_sfnt_off00011d03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001351a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1351A 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 7420805869e4255c8fe4cf5352ea255bcfeebc2f4ec0cd4f03d78a08d13f9bb9