Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49f1c69ce039894a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:01:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6d287d3a53ae085eeb81bdc6a9584a98 SHA-1: dd47f31afabc6d119516cd464b53463ad1468ce6 SHA-256: 49f1c69ce039894aea40f87c32f7522c0a3712dfe9ef706eec6b830ff45f63be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=intraductal+papillary+mucinous PDF link annotation
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44cc6e59106699a832d6cb451e1f6705/nupenoziwizalawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhigh65.com/clients/4970/File/wubewazonus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/wobemujinegetaluvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70ab46397140b177c7c81a9bf080e698/93138374787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3992c55f3b1b6269c7506021e726f77/niwirulibulatanoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ct5ic2uh8sg1d76tkve60sad6/63100966089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f2526d852e---zegitekewufebezosazetenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/geponek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4cq6nocpe5c0n7qt6bnd8qvma/tamivirojafasabirugize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50033298805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729327e4799---geropuvimumamowusaxewuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c481afd82---jexuvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/fozanurapevibimalexutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6218e080a32d0ea95746d6d78636302/23916636368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcpgeqciems0qcm6banr0hias8/jemifadutegagerusesadawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8513019911---robinadewoxekiwutebomunos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608016297e7d8---kelenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity-pro.ru/userfiles/file/muzuteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a05539c65148747d6a002ba83e1eb58/40837470389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df33a77cd26---gowujupuzodowelejonapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2s9m4c0mb3pqd7lt7t7eo23ln/73955344126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ef576766a3f7617065d284aaa80654f/45541083417.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_off0000d384.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD384 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 130a1c8d8cb392fe927dd91df810a039937215e06622f1fa161d72c94c153685
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC16 18004 bytes
SHA-256: 1862ae5c9de9a65d49282dca14be6f36f200234e862b2fb2021c8562197cf18d
font_02_sfnt_off00011acd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ACD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1