Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a49f956c119aaf62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-07-20 14:36:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 28f9f4a24a0f696c21907fe9a02b0bd9 SHA-1: 32feb2825867dde84e5cf7513996a46dc71280de SHA-256: a49f956c119aaf62a190b6456420fe7f353da6e6f1d7c2f029920f4d66b90875
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are structured as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URL analysis point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://zweefvlieg.net/userfiles/file/86978321328.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/51927411834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0fd682713---37627535388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhrj09i89qbmsi36iunmrsbnbd/22832559403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9o4v9efqduurp7rddjo3cejeg5/witaputezuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhsbluebirds1967.com/clients/b/b5/b592d679e9980e62d9d56be1bfb8b6b6/File/88885561021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fad51f7bf---32387375310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/43280015687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bee0517eb95---pujofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9d4d75f88be95113f4c78f4ce9dd4fe/futefutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f36042e8ef---63045351791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgbt.us/pds/userfiles/files/39551555414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/pesusugularuzone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutandcolorparrucchieri.it/file/50277101494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210703_147965FA6C65AC6C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91d4f42e5019e9cd650a42366f586976/pelekunivusikulifiwovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/96270422799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce8f8753814a68cf45b92dd3f54e63f3/29204312075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4d003bf6f4165588b1ac0b815163184/62785828646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19f03aaa86ab1818f3879d4db7e493be/57091838314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0253dbda7616d5e2511692c9b87e2877/8959836064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.org/contents//files/zasite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca3bc513e0---xamena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2c58d33b0643ccfc75279ac426798ca/zurarutonaxuxipexeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xewamanusejeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3f3cd4940a---61527497160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2d99595a5d---62766258991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmaji-zunicmile.com/uporabnik/file/1459240061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=stoats+for+sale+near+mePDF 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_off0000dac8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC8 10356 bytes
SHA-256: b8936eb2259b07386b1ab598091af6bcf44d7eee4c86bdbd1ffd2b31e19b0935
font_01_sfnt_off0000f229.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF229 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A3B 16500 bytes
SHA-256: a0ebeb04ff92660de8777da97ce3ac76740cf31f20917faf7a2eb3c91cd42114