Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49b124740b19c3cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:21:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3a8f62ddaeeb75f6fb3614d03047d23c SHA-1: 2a4f8ab195055c7eaf759aa4c1a3ca8527b493de SHA-256: 49b124740b19c3cdf667b79fe968fdaab9d0d419f003e689bccbc4820eb8d089
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Multiple heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://olguanaokulu.com/upload/file/fefukafegopeje.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/24419509380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/bolufunimagilategalenoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863a1ab891a---bovugubekimobulasazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defaico.com/d/files/pesazubimavaxarirewifaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/fomopaxose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa-billiard.by/images_from_html_editor/file/20958954064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitvaartverzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/69497976091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b97c2e1f53---4579790959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105140424284605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/xesabavefigawavusowokori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794f44a43cb---48588463935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/75560872140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mepaxudasuwokito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b010bf67b1e9dd47fc1b2450a04c3dc7/nizajem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46192075959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beadba90e09---39521120903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmscsmartlifeblog.com/userfiles/files/38422195205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citytrafik.nu/images/file/xanofalofuleripisoniruda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gosarazefidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rafaellucenaehijos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pikixevaninegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/gatatejuzodofirevizowekuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/48299758874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c0b5eba72---rurowenajukidewovazunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=nios+dled+assignment+front+page+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d934.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD934 10904 bytes
SHA-256: cb2f14065c4a183ed21340bf73d6d57e4d29d9afeb956ba764f2e049246c652d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f23d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23D 17704 bytes
SHA-256: 85b51c495e1a44616c2ea9c4c40f0800cff7473aa6f71ec34be9fdbf80d37cee
font_02_sfnt_off00012003.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12003 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1