Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49700a7537ce4b46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.4 KB Created: 2021-07-23 01:44:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 69a820b2856080f9dbaced6d81dece59 SHA-1: 578fe8c4e5e3fd13580e04348875bb22ddcfed01 SHA-256: 49700a7537ce4b462f49a888068291811f0c6c59baded618ef1b21b2031802b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to exploit user trust by directing them to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://www.casasemio.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zajap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c41101b1a16---10814951508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/17873512741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429172056848475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odumakus.com/uploads/files/15133058759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aht71octqkf13v1mmq9iurhuf4/tasexuxebufegebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/nadejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/98587757657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c184f40153e---vijawonasexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a2bd1312a---mujigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ivgshia2othnafa0eh9i49u02/tuvizadolowakufanexajimum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/rozojoxoleduriku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/79754574544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipforiraq.com/userfiles/files/76241132907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpa1ocu21vef377oj2cl9gk41u/kukepeneliloxorejizavete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/nivinepomot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/it5299iqkuatn3ido5a4nbc25h/wumurigige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/tulowoniwopoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/9416241641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/perujawit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d37d791c2---bukebuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cc489d11b280e41a9bdac1c2883aca8/tesorupokavine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c392f54845d---puniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+area+of+a+trianglePDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f93ae0751f---baxexonepuka.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_off000127cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013fe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FE2 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 596571bd3bd5b2c8786f9f0ae7f164b6392061fae4c11f63bb223a2728f54b8e
font_02_sfnt_off0001576b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1576B 19356 bytes
SHA-256: 1d9e152af21947f804443d6d00aab9d697dd63e4cf9adb16d375c293a18db63f