Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49b6e30e1711d457…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-28 14:54:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9c46dec0febb51426851fd3841f118a7 SHA-1: 52c8c89465b8dfe654df1d98b72706674e759b7d SHA-256: 49b6e30e1711d4576bc50161f657334d878dcd1d34a5f072f8e3d176e2ac0195
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of link farms on disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=scars+to+be+beautiful+mp3+download PDF link annotation
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/39154002576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guanlai.tw/uploads//files/202108120627068093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apra.pl/files/file/88319545224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/53409917128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b34620cbcec---vuxejezomoxobuwidoruvakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradbox.pl/files/file/gopizokulixugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorapeyzaj.com/userfiles/file/81033335684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/wixakaxufexafuwutogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmflower-kkc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mozuxulividisedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor80.com/clients/866172/File/fametogojowozitixogitidef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa92354800---77254508549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d19hi0id9j56t9pjqecfjl31c/16262717944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826ab202932---80187148295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/532b6ff3bf64062c11da90635459a88f/96678384639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccarrentals.com/files/file/78117711745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avqvjfkp54gaq7j7fib1fsp39e/mudidanez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kppzp.pl/userfiles/file/rawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/69130342915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weymouthhighschoolclassof62.com/clients/5/50/50fe23896e84432c97ff20d680692bb9/File/gurebisexewak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipsgroupjjn.org/userfiles/file/65749036116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proetcontra.hu/userfiles/file/pabawaroniwebexilefumurop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021072222181054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxik.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92885105284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3c82eb3b6bcdeb0ff20d27fa890dcdc/18824461974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/54651441473.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_off0000d179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD179 11352 bytes
SHA-256: d2052161805feba452c7d7a943887ce19d2f4f335f8bd5d636f294a52d265e6c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBFF 20632 bytes
SHA-256: af36664b6458d71f6eaf860769dd6a7beeb4029bdb646a2936e45a8437409151
font_02_sfnt_off00012230.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12230 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1