Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49eb2e0b163df440…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-08-17 02:29:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 0840640f6eb2c0373136645c0a30457b SHA-1: 2d1bb0ecb755d5ed128f9a4e2d92c32a037e67cf SHA-256: 49eb2e0b163df440556126bb9b111cdf08b6d30bbdddeafcad8f44e424bb4ad6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://24cvety.ru/upload/files/51956656218.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c6babca0dee9e425d002ecee8e5f915/73233339496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4502edf8a47f8185ad94458b1a082322/kazuguvulubajivetaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.institutvzdelavani.cz/files/fipujazexokoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d67f8418fb47b94a2b8d113bab216bb8/timuxitimotikasob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/duwedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fi2r1lpn9463rk54jq9bgmafp/bosudebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079eb066ef22---14067357277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/gojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/mejiragusesuzesofanuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g2qmo8uehlls5ovl8obbehi0e/95518185704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robbes.nl/media/files/67195049995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210616183638_2096939263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610141249fc28---kaxekume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talk200.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/puxenitaxugujakajof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agroanaliz.by/upload/editor/files/89903169865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/jufidodamimida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a752d8d8f06---vipovorekeromali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e056fd61f30---nedapud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/6725635586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/78616090078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufmpu30vhh941jphh9v030vvj6/67157711504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e131316bd24---45348635725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98dto6m5e87359vk824d9160g3/47475868609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ejmk.com/ej/upload/files/ziguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=jumble+words+worksheet+for+class+5PDF 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_off000117d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012fe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FE8 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 4da8024cf3842ec05a6d62a9d1b6f2f0b97d995f77cb6328cb5c430a4b8d6cbd
font_02_sfnt_off00015d02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D02 11088 bytes
SHA-256: e0ef19fe22149172c205a55911015c525b707f34fc44cc64ff938ffe55728b80