Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49bc388f8994e1dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-08-20 17:12:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 08b240e312956b2fc708fc333611b7bc SHA-1: 592ea0e8a1f627b76c033049f0b5b39a7b720418 SHA-256: 49bc388f8994e1dd9e3ed35fb6d2481da135bfbea1590acafe7a326573d478fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, which in turn host more PDFs. This structure strongly suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or facilitate phishing. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/kufug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a404581dd9---vonuwovusebidegenafapebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754e84542e6---16701510546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/79781556563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae0a676237972fb4a0ed5b15e595182a/romasatonulidodusiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/86296444256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e2ad33c71b7e200e860b6752ed61e62/77431771771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://take114.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210820_C728F52F04D7A988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.com/data/cms/file/49742321677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/45229076926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sherpachristain.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vovunirex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210520233538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kk-gorenjska.si/uporabnik/file/40455655485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9fa66281d---46019618074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bba83d9c8e---wavofivefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/lasovitebaxebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olynskiconstruction.com/pics/file/juposudupukixati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44ade2cb8a5b3fadd4e383766ec6b108/92844620087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210621091245_1kgl9s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iskoruma.com/upload/ckfinder/files/lodadaravelipefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/jumim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sozopolihills.com/userfiles/file/tosibaxugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biotanika.pl/upload/file/nugakasenuvedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=why+is+printer+not+printing+pdf+filesPDF 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_off0000d3ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3CA 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 49c4e3982e7fcceac2a85140963e37b2ff862e22f1e2b01eea297c364051e35c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011594.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11594 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 6c9dc72a7091413c71ab481f4869a8e4917e8e7e0b2e480584ab9ccc4b8514ce