Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49dfd0b55a20e036…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:48:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2ae297e4a36e6365f79df3c4072e4ae1 SHA-1: a95cf2d74bd4d1a23476aed3e5eb6f2274aa5e7c SHA-256: 49dfd0b55a20e0364c66058f0e85aa093bffe88d2b5491e735c76e9ec89bf4ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The document body is unreadable binary data, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to host malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b2f5240b78---sosifulub.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0231547980b32002123b14074907c7b4/muziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bheot9t6dgp5n9iiv74qeeft0q/69349767348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/73993718618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solener.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xubikiboxanuleres.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce7fdf5116a---19424502937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3f946089aae17e01802835a77b9d8ee/bodetux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drsubhashawale.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xujupemilojosupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072730753f18---35649477099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6de0bb311e733dc0e17c0c7b891ac4f7/40419460968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/86618510715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/432bb7e006b3d2884eebd09b507a1958/dobejetapofetukim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espiber.cl/images/uploadedimages/file/16331950225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/zifegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b38200eaad---6606510200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/huaqfdq0ide9ntavqjnt57vh8f/likerebemegifozuledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citadelcaralarms.com/userfiles/file/gukatafoxotosivemakigatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/264f5074378b4e38c2d2c6315fd5f113/bezolerete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10d7caf34c269284a52d41986134cf96/57777562076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71567e457b79d9ad00fd1667d56b4d14/5288942539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.la-rocca.pl/app/webroot/files/files/49441686566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607867e851e5c---54433416957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd6aeded15f---vugejosabasogugiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=disney+pub+quiz+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_off0000eb2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001033c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1033C 17048 bytes
SHA-256: c1436b0a229e2bc12bd2863af702ade46b0ea34218b49e0b7b35acfca8d6ae8f
font_02_sfnt_off00012f4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F4E 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 5feb239e3e24797c1107f8a574e2c2f9e477c55d999525f9650bae44708d9976

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