Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49d929d321d007b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-25 16:51:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: beeaa39a3f72bdaa9e8a482f26f448a0 SHA-1: 44382e6d48a67042db463b8777f9d61a856187e8 SHA-256: 49d929d321d007b22b0d75fa3edf6f020cda611849ca3e28a48b1d63ca9226c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with some links leading to other PDF files. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=corvus+launcher+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://manchetenewsms.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuxarusobodiroje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/63947348966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/29338696711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b0132be791---murusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-miyaco.com/img/file/2021917222310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanzmendia.com/userfiles/files/gelutojugozaguzanire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finliz.lt/i/File/8603459334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeshengtecphar.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210925204411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinecommerce.bg/uploads/pages/files/92115698338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nayyaralidada.net/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xodupalinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/lulofadobuzexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e537b9381c---topujixanazajuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/82355658810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/xilapodejufibixagelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisnoblelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pekapilikorofolagamepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kuwaitpolyurethane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78147132624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137bb6442408---wogedubifebanolunagozol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/2809295934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.around.hu/files/article/file/dedugejamovob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lavoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujieshubao.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021091315071673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbemnkjd7bfu.xn--p1ai/design/img/upload/file/6797812219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91771503377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bf8d5a5dc4---58468881774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jazykovytabor.topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/93515624736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikdercollegeofpharmacy.com/scp/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/90168486690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanticabtl.com/cms_2018_quantica/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/pobazonusevoxiwajegilajaj.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_off0000b6a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6A9 10572 bytes
SHA-256: a601f7d39353cf3d88408c680f502bf47945d8971f2ba068b056376b322b22ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000cecd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCECD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e6df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6DF 17588 bytes
SHA-256: a30a66e293522867433401207ee086f03f31a645431ef7b6fa7fb9d3a8ffa826