Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49601ad4a03e9443…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-08-07 22:59:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3069644c4c7f1fce46ae6bd3b268202f SHA-1: 4cfb278f8f4f2d5f89429f30aa0d6e449c65fd61 SHA-256: 49601ad4a03e94436532980e7a468435a87fe632823206a295879ae058687555
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9945

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://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3be17b2a46---29881094421.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fde36f793ea---57412832848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c882f3da25---48400255294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c51b651fcf95457bee261f826293c6/lixaleserofegodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f75ce73baa67c3f19b0c27a41bea24e/xufedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2bafb3ee69---lozapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/btpoalist2pfi0hp3sjfthood5/91779819070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topjobsnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/laduxediludolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/25972370594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theofficefurniturestore.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15959691004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riwoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9079da1fc9---46638586320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dhu4gmi9m4ctlsaf5h372gune/92653868782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab14079ea3d---85861053742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b772e01a1b---digopabovewepuxazimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086916737e4a---35506106538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kurgr7t2ntk1jolfh0dfnf37k6/zukiguvexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90140911331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyoujin.com/UploadFile/file/20210806214901312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://axlthailand.com/imagexx/files/39961188846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90acad90a8d9d2a254c999b9d307ed07/40020602220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/69902190783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bffpndk1m5vpf83lbg48qo7s47/94530525446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210708_223211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmeticdermatologymiamibeach.com/uploads/data/files/furoguwuparazubupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5340e572b5b85e474b06251767666bdf/somedawopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=vocales+grandes+a+color+para+imprimirPDF 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_off0000cfea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FC 17084 bytes
SHA-256: 13f6cb61fb3402c7270b2cf5fcfd5a85b1ca1282ae5f719e4621a75b04e845fc
font_02_sfnt_off0001136c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1136C 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 86716b431196f8a2ddccbccb0b4310d638e8f2deb1e61989a83cddda30cd7716