Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49892e4c0473868e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 16:37:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e73405381c98c77158c68b786e3332f2 SHA-1: fc5d8d693ea36cf18285fa148c2fcb4402c6da95 SHA-256: 49892e4c0473868e0b96769c744d16ac0ff10a6050628904f3b6b439c66f874f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to initiate malicious actions. The heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports a malicious intent, likely involving phishing or trojan delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://sakra.sk/storage/file/lapesidotovuxegosowapodaj.pdf
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96089945030.pdf
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28fca46733c77052220509b832707923/nakaveranasefax.pdf
    • http://skoleniridicu-online.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40482086186.pdf
    • http://smartdeal.pl/files/upload/files/gasitizerazebo.pdf
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/rolabukinukixudilow.pdf
    • https://youkuvpn.com/upload/files/79312826966.pdf
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dirigigitofomasuwa.pdf
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/12749192520.pdf
    • https://flammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/wutixevupuzi.pdf
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41542746576.pdf
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dd7525d4f9---42725067212.pdf
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4c1a8d77c---9032202420.pdf
    • http://serramentisiciliano.it/userfiles/files/19226986885.pdf
    • https://z87992961.com/upload/files/20210911082132.pdf
    • https://fabriziochessa.it/userfiles/file/desulazakitapivijedezogud.pdf
    • https://grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70842210892.pdf
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac980a3fe6---kadinesofijezowuxegal.pdf
    • http://schokoladenbrunnen.de/idata/lomojarumemixoz.pdf
    • http://orthopediedelft.eu/files/zagugafezavejere.pdf
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/firupusibawemuvuju.pdf
    • http://ventiliatoriai.lt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56018908401.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=wallpaper+poco+x3
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ccc0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCC0 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4d2.bin
c3dcf00a1b017cc3ee53506ffd3f30e205ce011bc38a9db7ca0cd33dd5a11f63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D2 17952 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000113dd.bin
604f2033f5fce3e4653f253ce879c00311aae2190bb69fc0188a4c1865ecd77e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113DD 10172 bytes