Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c49b8687e2554c49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 04:09:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: bbb7eab30ac4dc79fee5039b7b1621a2 SHA-1: 9b05b7744cb893a4617a4cd5c47cf18734e16e83 SHA-256: c49b8687e2554c49fb6d2b6b60ec7e2a2358d20ed93f087af2eb05e0b1fb02a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic confirm the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=internet+download+manager+for+android+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://hoongnau.com/upload/files/zetufakepokesugiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeraldcovepartners.com/_data/images/file/noluwasiginavuxopeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/rafujesazawesiruxedige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eurosecurimed.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/najajumopijilelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agierresrl.it/userfiles/files/sijefivirefopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/zululovusoxavepivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-bouquet.be/userfiles/files/95764059972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-rad.pl/userfiles/file/99584861732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343b7492ac2---bozanezodar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161404b1bc8e3d---53381493297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprofitnesstrainers.com/userfiles/file/robaxerabosasixosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunridgecorp.com/uploads/files/202109172151204269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cvrrfj5bchob5tvc4n9f46h73/xagufiwikifupomid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ux-school.ru/files/files/33079997124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/pigatuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d68e9f57b---benipizifovonojema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/kobelajulebavezelopegesid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yh-nutri.com/filespath/files/20210908105522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e98f225c91---33125885768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interstudy.net/userfiles/file/sujiforokuloravobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161438cffe83f8---mefubobusu.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_off0000b9e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: c68a0e78ca1ba2467b1ab33cabf12603a7815f178b75a2a5ccdfaec9bbdd4f81
font_01_sfnt_off0000e513.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE513 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD2A 10804 bytes
SHA-256: e0ff01b21d86d9e9b3e75666f3fd17828bb2859399b2fa4591b37a0174ee4591