Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c49d3d322a4828a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 07:23:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 74366e2c98e62559d4d636228ecfb6b2 SHA-1: 8f1a46a8050728c56631d752aae55e888ca0bb99 SHA-256: 8c49d3d322a4828a5e5e072e62f1cd94776e41eb3a89e4786d39345d7af3bc4a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic firings and numerous external links suggest a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38361917019.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/18922646662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcde.kr/userfiles/file/lekelelexifixebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0a142143c---sibadididawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngoinvest.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/70646566377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buffinvestment.com/upload/ckfinder/files/76303762672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/data/attachment/file/72464300595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5lovestartw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/45145916388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uticachemical.com/files/upload/files/17546354100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifo-sea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48538905200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vantainoidia.vn/ci/userfiles/files/74323319308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/wizofetisebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargoservice.pl/cargoservice/userfiles/file/kegazis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/kitibepazonawodebija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/bajomerorupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dffe6c251911826f769268ae8e0512e5/belewogufuwusoxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/62937184030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescofesta.it/userfiles/files/27197318245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemochem.cn/upload/files/75853656742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ef3fff491d48487cc41931d8d9b883e/tuzisezuxelululekosido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e859b79fc0---merumule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasteadmin.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/custom/wysi_uploads/files/falabodifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synergytaekwondo.com/click2buy_newp/userfiles/file/fukeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graylegalservices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wipidalabubuvaverewono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390808abe45---11342514991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.le-domaine-de-hauterive.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20978227232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=website+streaming+tvPDF 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_off0000c3d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3D9 17028 bytes
SHA-256: f1f2a92133041884e3d3e1df89fccdc6b489cb9fbc2e61c92a46a74b73205958
font_01_sfnt_off0000efae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFAE 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 449836e73cf58562c07b5582cf4eb67ab98472b9e30180b79c281d7b5baacaef
font_02_sfnt_off00010790.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10790 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1