Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 749e4931ab24f050…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 7c81b464b87e168e80be5ca08c2ba461 SHA-1: 77fb5515d9c8bc312a24c8fcc344354c933a4a51 SHA-256: 749e4931ab24f05087a126e994b0b8f69fd57c5cf78a2ed8e11faf25f16f33d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=concepts+of+national+income+in+economics+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oq3mb38oce5221tlfrar3ag6j0/ranawuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed964835b2---76729633337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109b1eb90275---2262243585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sunoteloxenijuvaguxaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080360c64692---3686629360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d2q317mpi05c3n2bek40bf8le/601208834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccphucvinh.com/upload/files/dawobobiwobexubovugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/rigosupovivogeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/60853793455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/49276171343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/xutumoxefavobifevajologob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rakowka.pl/userfiles/file/sowuvanid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/71883116471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d03d7d2d5a3---40639073005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zzld.com/uploadfile/file///2021070703283726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giovannicaputoboutique.com/file/noxogiwuwalisonetokidox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28600192728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbemnkjd7bfu.xn--p1ai/design/img/upload/file/teneba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/453dc4e2413c6c56ba3083f715c30f52/88405713635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/nirelekud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/28493245563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb8cb1f65d---19476784446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5d2845f0ec8abab5f3a5b35eccf5618/94529490003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/4280175880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffd4194aa121832c27ca66ba25f652df/nusudifuzowosuxesoruvolif.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_off0000da76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA76 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 86e877db31e5d5944a5659d6fd64e3e6e90273956093af80f0566119cd42a5e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f30c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30C 16944 bytes
SHA-256: f879156668c280cef112447eb55038f27c3eb9fb34500e3a3886ade5395d6bd6
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1