Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 649d3b459e92b8a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 14:30:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d48357b61508f2aa60449ef5c1914646 SHA-1: 429c64d91273469bd460c3892f64492e88340b65 SHA-256: 649d3b459e92b8a1a955e15979b34858a3a8a92b8e791da03eb25123b373745d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that act as a link farm, directing users to external websites. Several of these URLs point to compromised WordPress installations, suggesting an attempt to leverage these sites for malicious redirection or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+see+private+account+on+instagram+without+following PDF link annotation
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f0f246eac---fatapibijegilerut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkjd8cisd2c2obaq7pvn2352hj/26665523166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pibar.tw/uploads/files/202109092226541938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/88171288717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/61781002348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipp-haberland.de/images/upload/file/funudodanimatumeluvuwiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucarrorentacar.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xepuruteligemuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crediramasrl.it/public/file/68579657774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jexigifipivibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terminsk.by/pics/files/malatelebadawikapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbmounts.com/userfiles/file/1630740972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleartunemonitors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75962660742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://addon-colsman.somantec.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59647902855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvdeastudio.it/userfiles/files/56738592525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opersan.com/file/80459512831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandarinkinesiska.com/userfiles/file/18733688586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icoachyou.biz/images/ckeditor/files/39110393206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guss-ex.de/uploads/fck/file/93377104622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamecoast.by/uploads/files/jotuwezegagotuwugofolof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sor1310.com/userfiles/file/97349710133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizimpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/rusiromix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/27103637944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/tiwuxilozur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dp-silver.com/userfiles/file/rozometupolize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hansungidschool.com/userfiles/file/19448763482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d51c37e239717ad9bdda815829f804f6/matobogegozobowepabesegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnnjhansi.com/userfiles/file/tubokezesepitogodajima.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_off0000e421.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE421 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC38 11168 bytes
SHA-256: c0180b098445e875397da37f202b7730481be3e49b9e02fe96e7fe4c670fb3a7
font_02_sfnt_off0001162c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1162C 19448 bytes
SHA-256: 5e3b16f01f41a5a3e8a54c0a31b3c1656b3b70142c48d509cb23f50333cd1ffd

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