Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49ed9d970e699543…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 19:45:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9ac1145f7ed5682ed78273303f780826 SHA-1: 00677996029d4024a817f8d4880640ba12d3e8cd SHA-256: 49ed9d970e6995435ac19a86452bd712adc2f8c5e11f21267ab477d7d16544a1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains heuristics indicating it is a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure, likely attempting to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/724dc5d728cc5532d30cea486d2ff5f9/tejosetiwet.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/99659511623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/terunamerugapenisagapenan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaa582581269a2739615593ae56e3934/laxivonidemuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmrf48shjahtqat9d4eiper154/59113765600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8746f3ded4---20655015165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c3c8d09cf544c311796ddde6b197b79/tefizufage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893994d08b9---35392566175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/24341256325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97045048ee9dda0a9f67b13a6e83a27d/77464530044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c129cf2dcd5---35459848052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607038835680b---jeloxivubupozijara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/531936818c3b0cabe86861725813311b/pafivozufurajineriroletid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/rosamizukuwelunimolori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ad360aeb2c5b0fa7f6e616e618970f1/67718363370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/putiniwuvipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/23774670396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06f20b8b46e2de302b43c14d182993fb/56353294599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nsa1nalqlt17438kl6vbo1d6hm/29897695506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goopenapp.com/uploads/files/68637926224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kltccompany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gilobitamivukulesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=saps+interview+questions+and+answers+2019+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_off0000e9f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F2 17400 bytes
SHA-256: 5e09b99ca57dd8924bea1ea44bda2d88cdf5bfa2653b7b0541924cc8a86c8662
font_01_sfnt_off00011783.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11783 11380 bytes
SHA-256: 556e25b832d1a796abb6201f6989b749f5c8ccc0b35acd79f42dd63363efbec8
font_02_sfnt_off0001325f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1325F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1