Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 549b8bfe8a1c48ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:06:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: db8e9cccee1e94a5d16a960f09f3d279 SHA-1: 1bed3530bab307425e6d720873f17b16e2295364 SHA-256: 549b8bfe8a1c48eda378a3d54e891ebc9ad713052a1c42316555279d3fe163ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of these links suggests an intent to redirect users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or 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 http://dorisemitchell.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/86543370082.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b0c553338---tepuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e76ea8ccc385611756e35fea5029f498/kupirusidazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbma.org/files/fck/file/vatinovogelabijope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/favefutisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluminiosarla.com/userfiles_arla/files/48718718860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609844fbda204---fokeneje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c33f48dc21fe36f12ed1adb85e29620d/suragikoxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaibonomo.it/userfiles/files/sofujogarusoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/buripejuzixupegadufifazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edallyshop.com/upload/files/79736134759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e9d1e458c4270c80a8f72f216b961de/95553184030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f8306793b---guvevoxegawoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6afffba0dac594d24374f21cbf990f5a/43776620620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/1057736541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f4fc0e235---78760544438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kraftyz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufubiniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56117476737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0uikd5eqj0p3lso1vd2u3als7/63020156380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c010d4a278---44266758160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/30657847183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.micd.edu.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tudomawefisaribaloral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+mobi+converter+download+freePDF 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_off0000d4c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4C0 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 7637d7fcc54cc5b3ebcc388fe1643c70bb9bdc4fa1061bd9358308a5f073ec70
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED84 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 3cf76fe5d17034c255c6eda24c7a42442a96e0b86052541055586385eb7ec192
font_02_sfnt_off00011a35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1