Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49e3a0884edc1a26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

140.6 KB Created: 2021-08-02 17:54:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 6a27ce9fe98d960098ffaeb4e67094da SHA-1: 111be2809f855f5d0dc8c6a758e28b5182862a62 SHA-256: 49e3a0884edc1a2684c15911bf4e070eb30a238b54f4e89cde72d90890b0dc87
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=basic+principle+of+ir+spectroscopy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://innovad-ltd.com/userfiles/file/95693415770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hl9q6k0k7pre1v896nkpkjr0lm/59918669780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/korululunapugezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/moliwukojizerekatudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be6ff52218e---27301803606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad7fc42df12e3abaaff386cba44420a4/15053212754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36a8f8e301c9f5954a2de2cc412c0fb1/kavuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/008ea8ohigilho799kv4vetvs2/tujajumomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santabruna.cl/upload/file/nakamukafonizopowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/7010677012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46aca407cc9ecb73642596fcd31cd7b5/duvibawoxaseketosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23e168bb35fde3c6fcb1e973a576e0d6/3804953139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cece020d10d274a566f5fd358036fce8/wafebukejeganome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c61e4df56c82dae47192b2d39ab2403c/dokok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwayinn.com/image/files/20210721_054918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/57673741675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/rasasaxavinisapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/lufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangphatdanang.com/uploads/image/files/mijagosenatazaguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608798ab91012---wopabewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/sovufawojitat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/84116941552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/runuxesotegemagukivoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c3e847599---natogepubutitivijujunaf.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_off0001c6f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C6F9 16764 bytes
SHA-256: 2c5b367e848f53672b849e77595e61abcaf03f7ad155fdba770cbbee84b516e3
font_01_sfnt_off0001f295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F295 10780 bytes
SHA-256: e5101abd3aca126a7302c7f4069c968aad27f8afa40b9cbf9cc06a0614fd71fa
font_02_sfnt_off00020b98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20B98 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1