Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49c3c1d1bea63c6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:50:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6d758b3576cd38caccea319cae0da9c3 SHA-1: f23aecc0e975313b1c6c4945980999280933e108 SHA-256: 49c3c1d1bea63c6cdbe1c0474e2eed0afc6e962326e53571c4f4cadff84966a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://bajrahrs.com/userfiles/file/tekivakiwegutagafeke.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0a5f2901c---doxelurarixosibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db1d3be2a5---nerewonofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/kujiwazibusinulixor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783e099fcec---3459749308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botorka.ro/userfiles/file/5103844770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096586f9642e---1554994821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncabhsa.com/clients/875427/File/60379603594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/41922916940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c737b8971bd---xupinenefugidizelutel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1ad1ee3d7---vaxilufowuginegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/texuzunimopebev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/vakobisaduzofesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/levofuxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renebeumer.nl/userfiles/file/benabaxafirarazevogov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20b9375535aedac83a207d0da65d41c4/84924349837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/3656124091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e22fd01bbd1bf6f556f1865892a8c979/kawetazarubit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphammonly.com/luutru/files/bufeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.profiemg.cz/upload/ck/files/41332515809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgroup.at/tmp/44541805960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/52749577305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/muduwogaduxafegumikijidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/jobebesomusubizuwugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7b9209d2eb---30597866996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fstksv708e9l5g6sovp1d45i2/ledamixelamulerojugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=social+security+benefits+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000eb75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB75 16620 bytes
SHA-256: 2be16cd881e9bb0de6ac50089e27be15f66d036cc6d8185a4f822976f758f931
font_01_sfnt_off000116b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ecf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ECF 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 62e4ad6fe3882b5e1eda4f907b29ab228961fd65c45806a42f0eeb1541f151d3