Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49690fdc7ca05a41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-10-14 08:58:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: dc0bb383e50e4e56f416f0f29b7d20e3 SHA-1: 670bd6d1981e4bb7e2357837f75ef24b3847e73c SHA-256: 49690fdc7ca05a41d04a7659dcf817f19f1c754ed3e9423753c765830dc745d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or hosted on disposable infrastructure. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=foundation+meaning+in+education PDF link annotation
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133031190027---nenobubavoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eagle-aviation.com/userfiles/files/80739692249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/893q7flntpg2gm9g17bo9umape/zedanavamikuxidokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgrima.com/files/file/74341468229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/zokakogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybed.tw/uploads/files/202109230452398730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventss.ru/userfiles/files/dutex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aletihad-group.com/userfiles/files/ziwuxisezeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole.ru/text/images/file/97254533390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ln86e7mh0hs8ongmkoo7qq52u2/fojomijokebuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/bizuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gbfrjournal.org/pds/userfiles/files/42325529052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/190609028852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80179733920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabiocaronearchitetto.com/userfiles/files/63029830601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntc-container.com/upload/files/14632149592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yumasri.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cybernet-ap.com/UserFiles/File/42556473750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearcon-eng.com/file_media/file_image/file/fajizumiguzuketunoreji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/tuvibidepigubozapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aynispirit.nl/userfiles/file/dusejinuxisulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrickstaxi.fr/userfiles/file/69033057227.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_off00010fee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012800.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12800 19320 bytes
SHA-256: e48811ba03195afb880721c019e5391ff53217d63a5f12ec95db2c3ac2036238
font_02_sfnt_off000159fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159FD 10476 bytes
SHA-256: f38a300e0ce8eabe7d9045595c465eb1b057078b032aec364ae19be103d27779