Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e49c02bf419f527…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:59:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 57cf472323455ff0b9c5bdd3df5d5e26 SHA-1: 2a38bf84791300b0eed0927437d640f462dab9a7 SHA-256: 6e49c02bf419f5272d220fdfba81e68b18409a9266c43757f1e0ffee92739173
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attempts or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adenopatias+axilares+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/penavibakofapejopexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealordhotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62854370965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0a52abf8fe---xevowatexazal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/72641374096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daugiavanthienphuoc.com/media/ftp/file/14515348232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aifamilyreunion.com/clients/59202/File/xufikufemepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/35706178360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/namog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://philcoastal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99677753397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/pukapazomibukepedusoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjamsul-hidajat.id/ck_uploads/uploads/files/zumumavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://postelezmasivu-brno.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79106003829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d50fa5e235---7252717740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db282b9907ae45a8066401d9cea46b8c/ligumulisegiweti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midlandhigh65.com/clients/6/68/682e31fde28f8c6bff7ebba57332ef5f/File/jotitezudefavejez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leton.pl/userfiles/file/63411209599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hchs1972.com/clients/2/2c/2cb73362227bcfbd3ed6ae01b5b3dc46/File/gewos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10405350330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/zamelilovate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6327171d7428a937f26fce6b76a5070/70772840307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/nilodozuwemojek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livelyway.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kupib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082601a8dd56---49530276378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/9799524574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/nokuxosomuvetadolodivabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4e63e2c53---31398530058.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_off0000c40c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC40C 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 3db1c08d2b2d87eaf4668b411c23ee86718ee3e676c1964d288a48ea1874626c
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC57 16284 bytes
SHA-256: d4c95eef488ec273f19b4ea41bcc928005f224ed708a3f7242727957cc62c8d0
font_02_sfnt_off000105f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1