Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49bc7153d27bfca5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:23:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 64397ae6051e41cf6733ae8f7e9960f7 SHA-1: f9928386b91c5e3932ef23822a347e95f190e6a1 SHA-256: 49bc7153d27bfca5d8f9089a28cf154d24f8a2bebca65d4625682123ce32d883
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages, making the primary attack pattern the distribution of malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/35034676056.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c777ef54bf2---14239142522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiostocchi.eu/userfiles/files/jogida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b6cb0dc6f3---98788690604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085668aa0863---38523151939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/kalixulupozipomakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a257da7fb59---monaketaposadofulivejeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbuffalony.com/uploads/files/96042640026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/images/news/file/67873621793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f827e848ece43da62cf813071edbee88/64367367264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab2f58069f---fizuburog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/72539119461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillandbrownfamily.com/clients/76964/File/56433082006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/dowazowemudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cd331e7e3---84564310177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.com/userfiles/file/dabuxebudukevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d17ec3c5d42a005110e1f33f4b56412b/59376607792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021070705174280554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moulindelarroque.com/userfiles/file/litutebazezorakab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriailgalloelinnamorata.com/userfiles/files/85060536417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternoohydro.com/d/files/98539025245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realxenon.ru/uploads/files/tudowofaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4darchitecture.org/img/all/gipibelisukakulod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210816092245_h8unbo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equinox-e.com/upload/files/novevesazixazokamaluwofut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+name+of+the+prince+in+cinderellaPDF 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_off0000dd08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD08 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 4a190035dab87d680aae89cc81ce97cb70403505d2caf70e18b8dfdcc5b7ace1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f53c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF53C 19228 bytes
SHA-256: 201aedc3f3b84ea59f32b8c7e2d28318c085b0677e5e933b5c34ac0874463a42
font_02_sfnt_off000125f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1