Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49c2a3180304e034…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 06:16:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: c359cd3a29a1c9ce40656e9f2f6811c6 SHA-1: bb6703b34e5de5bb9bf2c6de9574183005fa12ff SHA-256: 49c2a3180304e0348be302fba37efdfd7882b7a183ef28041089e6212047f689
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mvvm+retrofit+android+example PDF link annotation
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/ledenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/38465784442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/movefop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/kelewemunowufajadexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0685b5fcc6---bogugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassageboy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81839862204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb16bd0511---99155895481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989b89826f1---madaxawibejufiposela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhs1962.com/clients/b/b9/b967f936f519796c2a696a6ed1da67f9/File/19103914886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2967228cee---55019675680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608572bc19649---xirezejibotuwato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v596i456f205e408lt55d0fvsl/muzixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/repisumonixusuwawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea04bc333e00bf6370f731ae7b88368e/poluwibuvulofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/64356303442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/xidunegatogopimumasef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c3d27f97a---39603583374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uholtpsb6ebm4b5tmip9n7cbi3/50158875943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlv8id7bm5poqsrrrqot4h686k/tematomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c042772cb8---nekamasurosupedixorolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5h8g14f0hh20gat1407ac14lja/voforikototipoxemita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/327dd41099d8471d1e6a0edd28aafe49/27196695415.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_off0001204a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204A 17880 bytes
SHA-256: 576357397fb9343e66de0fb97068b3b733357ed53fade0a11465831186b624d7
font_01_sfnt_off00014f9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000167b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167B4 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 3e065491a923ac3839f7b961ba24c56c8083d8e7a1afe2c552df3cfcf92e93e6