Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49fc3e4f9f823ea1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:34:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b2703cbfa927195195c17fc568757bc4 SHA-1: 969cf30d352e3879eba6e953b17601bdf3bf7778 SHA-256: 49fc3e4f9f823ea129ed8b3ba6f8e1d3c016d71dca189bffe5dda87cdd6c4d04
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that function as a link farm, directing users to various external websites. Several heuristics indicate that these links are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/47863780066.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nodinizibexozexiwosugot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://car-zone.sk/data/data/file/54102922385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rais.bg/uploads/file/13316209183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://springkasteelhuren.be/userfiles/file/19782240563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents/files/mubinuxogimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613faebf4c3d0---86956874261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdsns.ru/userfiles/file/rored.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/6130567a7f892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leylatoprak.com/userfiles/file/77550550536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/kakutuduvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npcbalkan.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tulanekubajomuwazenozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccaquebec.com/userupload/files/kasuxurikokorek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advocaatindex.nl/images/uploads/4449042443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users/file/rizipuninuguturepazus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a115f21e0---29384444761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b6c9561209---kojalisejozojoxuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vofoweguzidetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anaksemut.com/contents/files/rigiweguda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktai.lmg.jp/upload/file/20488578014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muachungbaohiem.com/uploads/userfiles/file/54911204243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/file/pifona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136171d06f66---mojuwapowezujinot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=black+ops+download+apkPDF 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_off0000cb8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB8A 17900 bytes
SHA-256: 73f32969f4c7787158c74033bb1775f9acd1c864d16bd401f864365ecbc192d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011261.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11261 10316 bytes
SHA-256: e2068a1e4cf5fd7d33918c81c7bfca4237a38ed8ee1c2a0d3e0f35ded9e51e2f