Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49ea0ac03760863c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:23:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 33ac8055a49f0cac012402db11430100 SHA-1: 60a8d305a5e556e25ebd4d4bcd43a736c9230701 SHA-256: 49ea0ac03760863caf51526e2b1ac92b155f4415d3434736de5d3107b94ef8e0
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The critical heuristic 'SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE' indicates the document's intent is to trick users into revealing sensitive recovery information. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggests a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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://gomaihoa.net/upload/files/19334118732.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://progin.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79666754986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f9d3e66fa---89123978928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huh.hu/UserFiles/File/zigutavosunobomisolupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameranichietsu.com/luutru/files/87975273048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://german-ex.com/images/blog//file/famode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105201623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41cc9416e49914caafa19b1a85505c1a/33890758862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/20495151009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipublicity.cz/data/file/wevawiselunufijutumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc2b6560652714f2fb67bcf90b974823/36397643399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/pezitisejuzegebekobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c798e906e09---pokipiremuzux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbe03d9dab---62097993132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd84811505b---wopodubemekavageruzofidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c56d38981ab---13926922350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentish.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67597368725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7d823fa87---gonik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mavelikaradiocese.org/rapha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11027855082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a85ab2394---87476702385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mnlex.it/file/80316914679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/8919124223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamotato.ro/userfiles/file/xexewewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735c97b4a35---mufisunawuvapafuwosagapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=secondary+storage+structure+in+os+pdfPDF 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_off00017612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17612 18756 bytes
SHA-256: d4628b214a4977e06df2531cf8ca0e1ef34011cdb0a2b7785840108a51cb4729
font_01_sfnt_off0001a68b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A68B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001bea2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BEA2 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 79e829a60bfa4b09d0cc550f908efdb517f972af2a0585f7ab91ad6b96613f15