Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49a72d1f5a70114e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.7 KB Created: 2021-08-10 21:54:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 9b4a9f9c524c3ef3a3c6ece8bedf7997 SHA-1: 9c3b094443d0aa1e307b1d0366e1cec9997f1635 SHA-256: 49a72d1f5a70114e71d30b9e8896c12f7e7539ed367a421a366aec4925e5fe08
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/74312677431.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8d02e810f---19076821241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stdtekstil.com/upload/ckfinder/files/sorodizadefewuteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowlingkillers.com/imgdb/files/poforububiwirut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/kozebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5l59jm93tjagea7dtctc59c4g/34606118778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/8631056047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gma.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56791340489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec94f3cab53c990a3083f0ca4c6ea530/visufavovetupabafune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ligomowarinubofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringpoets.com/userfiles/file/tixuvajoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tlohpah7air7h732s1oqujmcod/tadonawore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec4f6d403e---rorofoguwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40b8fcfa41---juvubegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d39b1ef97e1ec1438ffc9a17a57c9302/50161643973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starkhigh1972.com/clients/d/dd/dd83d6d7846a033806cdb512e10d7d7c/File/kafizojepudefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad7279389f5---sabusekitogikeloxikudew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2f79714e1---lakomilosawin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/mobajevaxejedufaturuvun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c66941a5e---pedupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a19fa46b08---14397973279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac073644d23---97371841226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=gravity+falls+theme+song+virtual+piano+sheetPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000126e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013efa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EFA 18988 bytes
SHA-256: 973b0036043abcd99f7e7cdde0073fe084b4345461e6961c1a9c9f76db8fd315
font_02_sfnt_off00017088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17088 11124 bytes
SHA-256: c882516bf947ee6e01f685b41e1bbc2a320f4bc44a95f1c1176b166d8aee1601
font_03_sfnt_off00018a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18A60 5924 bytes
SHA-256: 1eedbabfe0be21b39f1e7c4bb0e73b88ce4f9e88c13a788aab8e7eb3e36130d2