Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c49489cf21f6f3ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:09:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: c2df07977ffa06fec92e398c03afb626 SHA-1: e3ea5128bd777ba1fdc4327de6dc72f111bda8e2 SHA-256: c49489cf21f6f3ab33c6bfe779d6b863d3d6934c48be2175420617a70923b2c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or distribute various malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b57b2a2ae06a407e1dd79660a05e89a/42046256180.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://whitepalacegrill.com/userfiles/biwelikegilarelome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/zuboxeduxosupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iaido-iaijutsu.ru/userfiles_exc/8046289036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forepic.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/roduxefaxesisag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongshengcable.com/images/upload/File/wifugixupimedekimeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenaoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/61365702544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38b9e875325acdb00c8864a8f13043cb/14723815226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damotevasowegiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergakiland.ru/files/files/66589273123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barahi.com/assets/userfiles/files/9718120729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocatogiuliani.it/userfiles/files/4727836037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbaoge.com/upload/files/kutixufomulakajem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133adb020937---34528377241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/2021091516542533492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikquartz.com/upload/editor/file/1631917017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultingexpert.eu/fckeditor/userfiles/file/82707309518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-summer-courses.eu/upload/files/gumisafejikizaxediwawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ysh.my/userfiles/file/kifisuneni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetogram.com/images/upload/files/genugadosagudelevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araratmebel.ru/img/file/59475370626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-sai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42039374428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoorichi.com/temp/fckeditor/file/semetoxogowogaxinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=best+full+movies+2021PDF 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_off0000fe97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE97 10524 bytes
SHA-256: a05fd52c1e3b783d8443d1040763e1c0ed53b4ca5eb0360f506986636f3d6d5b
font_01_sfnt_off000116c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ed2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ED2 19500 bytes
SHA-256: be660a82f803ebc928a59cfb6d3b77585870f093d0cf721fb114a1cd15c3b09e