Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a49b274ca8e101e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-10-02 03:45:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: d694b5e0ccc4e899d9e50ca86c878261 SHA-1: 8779f15a661661dcc92bd1e0bfe24872a63cb107 SHA-256: a49b274ca8e101e5edfca73773cc9f00f5dbe1eb99f2964b877b9c9105991cf8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious or phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure, likely intended to deliver a second-stage payload or lead to credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=play+youtube+minimize+android PDF link annotation
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/70909093128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzmzwl.com/Uploadfiles/files/subanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/26405229628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albertscience.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bizaweridunaxafar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e68b48968---48263151208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kubermatkaplay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nejidaforobiluvuxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141854e651c4---15313228223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinivideo.hu/sites/infinivideo/files/49591161678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614092bb42e69---sesufurufatofilojopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f36d1aaf42---9100554235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/supafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/29651437512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukupahit.com/contents/files/gexotogiwibotew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floraplant.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/masafopifabelozifewure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/sanefatirexamojedeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenmallbiotech.com/upload/files/14373465151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/pebutirefufuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36527370697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ba99bc2e21421fefb1c7f052a348395/mojinipokuxakadofubukomin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/dumaxogesel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clanlogging.com/userfiles/file/regidojij.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_off0000af7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c78d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC78D 14964 bytes
SHA-256: cf2dda24f1e293d0fb64cccfce1c0ef00ee422d2bb20fdb8bf8f29e1fb1d046d
font_02_sfnt_off0000eda4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA4 10656 bytes
SHA-256: f69e43975a7e27a58a7939a5ab5065ef3938bb397a8769bb85982df2cb4e1286