Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49976801f524c98b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:32:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 91f0e9b8f06cd16e71adc0a21a02d128 SHA-1: 3605b3186a55d434d5cd5fbe4ee6c921a1398dde SHA-256: 49976801f524c98b455a496a1b8e9e43dbe9d67300c4fd2babd7bc3fd6f959e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate a likely attempt to exploit users through deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+breed+a+seasonal+dragon+in+dragonvale PDF link annotation
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842171c0a8c---mobirifitapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limuzine.md/userfiles/file/50976087848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoacanh.net/luutru/files/dababululudanigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tj-1970-50yr.com/clients/e/e8/e8fccb6fb94f20b6ca4375945b3939e1/File/16757167869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/86792470917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4b2a2121b---karupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942e634dcc3---binelisujodoxisofodekija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210720_6ED10FA05135DD8E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce3faaaa3c43c769d20678218d5958c7/44266423312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b141a23d5d---gomewasime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073484990ff2---39518726457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9f0nae8ui8fotfosigltu6rcd/rijufisobefuwulawixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://targhevaticane.it/userfiles/files/88838091551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b9f145a86183dc56b50c8bbf78d466e/93230616636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd595cb1f52d48fb8450b464906fbdb1/nikejalisulemoteleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/54760297960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownchantilly.com/uploads/files/fuponorijedowabitujujute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/wokalav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/5751375563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pappjdpitfl3ltufvhvl2id1ln/15170942139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotosvatba.net/userfiles/file/3182594867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36018e76370d27d7ad6ab01745f3d1ad/3289727590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totoquynhhuong.com/upload/files/bokupinel.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_off0000e9a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A5 10704 bytes
SHA-256: ba61cd9b27537e25d9651fa568db97115671a52ec27da72cd58cff11a5cba363
font_01_sfnt_off00010225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10225 20412 bytes
SHA-256: 7e73e3d4aecf48f595b57b903c3b5c1523220a40291b86c518edf96620d76e21
font_02_sfnt_off000137ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1