Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49f1dd1a05e7b090…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 00:07:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 67d99dbaf143e43d2ec712e3b5970ff9 SHA-1: 9c0274b40b8e0733e387e72674c80578b939bd85 SHA-256: 49f1dd1a05e7b0904826deed8f5ecada2f9eaaaca5ec8aa47dad68271eb86c58
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to facilitate phishing attacks or further malware delivery. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+put+a+gamecube+disc+in+a+wii PDF link annotation
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/tipupozomotijigolagevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de742f4f296---tujefejumozibozasujoditi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/26713912105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbd402e03a652eac0c02f14c2781b1fe/24408296283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kraftyz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwezefulifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4968c6336---makawusijegoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvu12h.net/userfiles/file/lalinagegesejofipazama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/livapoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928757cdadb---90312132881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41041c48db---refenegukaxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac687a72216---kotetubonewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dondepodemosir.com/userfiles/file/43197332427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/735527c6ea41e980803c86f388d85f08/kotuwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/48260615613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bda22d942a---basexeruzopililenupub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/pirokibirodexewipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/81660164331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//genenef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e1b92f307e0c57c424e5a896869c340/44771058533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/988320efe4ea6586908bbc4aaa5c9d99/50856781431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819c04deec8---61623578464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dr93iu6l2pj9vq2d680k95d3ov/bugugufuboxuwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb4d4dc3dc---laduxapowikip.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_off0000f2e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E0 11180 bytes
SHA-256: a845aab2f839743d2eeb749ab0f67f70c81412e617eac0b5a0a61b5f06da632b
font_01_sfnt_off00010cb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CB9 19396 bytes
SHA-256: 84a4436fa5adee689667edffe2999abf6d8dea1c4694059f2db0417519f15a94
font_02_sfnt_off00013dc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1