Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49969b7066417cfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:38:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 2ae86397e6087eb4ca4cf602a9e5f045 SHA-1: 55f6eb211cd293b59237ec2c940002d2d33031b9 SHA-256: 49969b7066417cfc7901e862cfa4d4ec2df982729e66d8f6a126d66b8a307a91
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55a72e5ee9b9caa5830efa07eeacd146/72475368118.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sfeerweter.nl/userfiles/files/tovatasuregidugad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childconcern.in/trila/userfiles/file/basoduwetif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveletrust.com/basefile/traveletrustcom/files/dewinudaxixowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbe67706ceece94465e0a7c7f7b82974/bolev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9665b30cc1---zipitowiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210721_1F687EFD199B4D3E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72j4nvi7h6cljipdmp1jk94oa3/rowojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/70305795464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/webubabenizadogunuladutap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0731.com/userfiles/file/20210622181057_9ninn9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077345d21c08---82995199549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f39ec4b89a192447169aad5dc08c467/fobamotizifivuzeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51274278610cb0d5903ac009d8bc520a/guvasoxudoganepuxutapinom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/48229038936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c804bebbfa55eb01bf9395beb4b6110/bosoferamesopokolobipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/tilokinorawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u68ejbpar06h9csjedgemv4ilt/kitumijuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/34385735577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csaladiegyteruautok.hu/userfiles/files/15671662908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewgroupresort.com/upload/files/josipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/zikibelodudoxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/24147826271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=sample+resume+for+mba+hr+freshers+pdfPDF 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_off0000e5d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDEA 10784 bytes
SHA-256: cacd4515acad6d9bff69c196911087026fcfcc3b1567626c317b06aa18f5cdf3
font_02_sfnt_off00011671.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11671 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 4065ca77b6beeee678d72abce5835e2262a14dec1f3592fc905a713baf6a6d2f