Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49be37d65eedb856…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:17:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: abb9544315985a05e1994953e77626cf SHA-1: 604f333623179e4889eb6ce791df15540f7a0927 SHA-256: 49be37d65eedb856d8b47c06eee7536ca6ec357735be348488aa414061755153
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are identified as compromised CMS upload directories. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly show the intent to redirect users to external, potentially compromised, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d23kpj1uvj73qag4dsrq1vj00/95160575985.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36c7dadc5c1dca3002737d22b79f1304/jenoralofemoludexokokuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/vonulud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/sumenojifujirosugilewita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f5d8157f0---noroxotexulasuxajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/jonixowiwuzat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/13220408337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1f8df62429d0798a7baf30d055c9dee/49488909247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telektrans.hu/editor_up/jaxekalisanabuvavefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songiadahoaian.com/upload/ck/files/logodema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eqletstalk.com/uploads/files/202109011838437486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/69703083357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5a4e5a7ffc70ecd2745669d6e91d9f6/23712380682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/lizafujitivoxebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdbf765023c---25720177498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancunday.com/travela/img/files/82678406479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f146cca941a---maralexewifanopar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horacebatten.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lurorupovig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838a5c30d52---41683278415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ba855d62170fa004be87826e95a0ef3/nijiwenenele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/55327597796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimaletto.com/uploads/file/73008374271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiancfea.org/userfiles/file/90948750195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/71250547767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/694c3688a15abe6e429f7a1be298ca04/nesafateji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9b9aae924298aa20fd86bc7ee29057c/judigajogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=neuralgia+del+trigemino+tratamiento+fisioterapia+pdfPDF 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_off0000b8dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8DC 10920 bytes
SHA-256: d31d2aff951de04ebcddee5feb4c885db3687371c31d07e7f19e53c151c915ab
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E6 15796 bytes
SHA-256: a180a06561da325c92192440de18af2d5b4a1995ca89a1986bc32e2e67eadb01
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1