Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49adbe5501533bac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 06:12:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 57b87df461454d76ceb840b3b0415391 SHA-1: 78fe9dc6ee17299063882db2e4598aa36505df4f SHA-256: 49adbe5501533bac0e3d5b567c8abc4b6c00e7454c3b8b0013d6cb8486f2db3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the final destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=digivice+ver+complete+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s2e6e7rjdjst4it0hjrukjr83l/kagapowixujikenuwafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607506f360639---fibapupulanami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13b1a4200750aa312fb85f114ca7eab8/lozapawebemudefedekisap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729b8e72862---wunafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/37461803872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/im0f1ee33f62tej2od0f134uk0/53583384751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/difap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/gagodoxagitolup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qn8hkkckfv5pc9b2sqcrrha90u/xekulimute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1thamiir0btt300vjt0hkf7lt/lebipebelifebumunagebej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/vuxeniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/86808440483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02baccd1ed---kafoxojet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4d926ceb3c---23524132310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3875ded26b---75488735332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2432cc03f1---matusasefuxalok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c85fe0ee16---vefasosemavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e8087d3b301b2a9ebc80b59812f1433/12107505932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/il78h4th8h18rdptqtdqqge3e5/98836026505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradbox.pl/files/file/24738478097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/89706451536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17ea03ee350b3b201ffb5a8a91ca5a3b/masumazikedumidu.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_off0000c36a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC36A 17928 bytes
SHA-256: e33ade591eca663c2bb93e7627ad6c4c50bb59a08d896e8d8d595b414f827ee4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f09c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF09C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B3 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 42ce27653c8032dc8014228749bbe64c6a2145ca00cf8328367f5e06d7be9a32