Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49c2995dded0fab9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:51:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e09289c0b7e94dfb3e2cabf400e79b34 SHA-1: e8eb34f074f6c8e67f94ca9e7d0002d6eec5b3ce SHA-256: 49c2995dded0fab9c4f23c0a51afa4c78ae80b9e3384172724dab27f0d94c20b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The PDF structure itself is also noted as potentially compromised, further supporting its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://jewfri.kr/files/image/files/86955684115.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1f4650b208---zagazavari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9375e310c---67535471677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipack.ru/content/file/vasikunidifalorojusefedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210513054932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fa851f40c1efc6b6aa7b9e8750f4421/nitusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rford67613.com/clients/a/a2/a20594cba7d6fe247bc87ef9b80620db/File/26729421782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ressourcengarten.de/azubi/userfiles/files/92405365523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607210fdcb85c---mumifirug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psk.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nodegoxexuzojovobojibened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiamberardino.it/userfiles/files/55167303726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/523531429b783ca87fbb62051d372d7e/67109169712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874c5b32a1d---91282080909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a96178e9c768f23ef9e792d4e543f907/vewebajeweduvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66ii947fn1p77dbqstmohlgl9l/rezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-polyana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovalebedepifetulod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dondepodemosir.com/userfiles/file/gamixuvaxazomexusunebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/miluresukimifofudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c36f5d0b0eb---83400410977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/13617361443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettosirocco.it/userfiles/files/rebewosilemibusavetixus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612171485e279---fusovizukipalomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lowdertraviscoats.com/clients/7/74/74ec8bd2877f4db8d0b9f56bae0111c3/File/63176746867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotofidelity.cz/userfiles/file/wojoxelaperesavotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943b9ac3721---lebixobomuxutudub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=vedic+astrology+for+beginners+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_off0000dbf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBF5 17440 bytes
SHA-256: a19edbf7032d18d25a1ed25d62d0608abe7be6dd0efe6f5bc7a4c1b6b3629330
font_01_sfnt_off00010929.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10929 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012140.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12140 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 649dded57100b4d0a5f60f0f3ecce0256b0d786257af1a69ff864ee8f5c35ba8