Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49d70fe1bdeb3559…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-17 07:30:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: dbd8dd8e044ef28553b998eee65e0cf7 SHA-1: 083cba1a3e4a0b811c1a21a6cd16da4d7c352ad4 SHA-256: 49d70fe1bdeb35595618cfaf6b5c141f9d072ded5cadf1eafaf1b9ceb80d3a97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or downloader lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6ee50f8ddae2c149cd3884b649927ce/75879455393.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ruta.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7916073281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/8596855099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c8cdf2fd7---ribijaxowejilebin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb358c33fe---79420326737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/1888831800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e3986fa3116e14110af6abb4d11f4ea/49963793981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6907al59tlahk4sor43tit99u0/dotagepaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nctpa.biz/clients/5/51/51e593b678cc4707ea5ff7b662bcbdb9/File/vinimorotevukaxoduka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuganinupodurebeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/gowedozezakuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/usfq65v9srfkomckg4e8ef1sl7/zovoxilixedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ac5ce3cbe---fukuwexavepivewut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18d488d15ca7d0db37eb83f556dbcbc2/juzatijizolimemedarako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/tojekonogafefuxofusuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/66109543375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/2065687971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtgj9mt2hsji6fs291va2dbs6r/sowurowirujixuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sikilufududanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/sibanelifekevojamena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b96d0f824e0---75741573696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowlinggreenhsclassof66.com/clients/b/bd/bdf8ab256cd88a603fc2b95a051c5839/File/60046078015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210603134756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatkade.com/basefile/eghamatkadecom/files/85753708603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=king+of+fighters+2003+apkPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAC0 18100 bytes
SHA-256: 57d5be7f040867ed6ee899169cccfc323fef8a9048539dadde92ff3468f6d8a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA73 16368 bytes
SHA-256: 49af513be5584b63ffb3764bee6623887ad08f97da0f4f962e57d3c96009cc3f
font_02_sfnt_off000110bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000128d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D6 11088 bytes
SHA-256: b9d20ec6dad9f8788a457251fdc6d1b691d281dc48b7af17239fa041bb737f80