Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c549bc496e7cdf6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-09-28 15:37:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 3e3c1d97c2ca0333f15c129de505c5c7 SHA-1: 2e7a9dc2321f52614d8e89791608d4206dcc4901 SHA-256: c549bc496e7cdf6eeacb66c34f7ba4ccfc0769fb02257afc2b5f7c662f3fde24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with multiple heuristics indicating it's a link farm pointing to compromised websites. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on potentially disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3747dd66e3fba36e90e319b4b249018c/20932427692.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://benrassam.com/uploads/files/2313344245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307230d99c6---luruxapemilopajewizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khaskhaan.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/2535602896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bientannamhuy.com/wp-content/uploads/files/sedutod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/geremubizodibag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettogeometra.it/userfiles/files/38379137321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e78235204---rowelunegilobirifutasir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameragiaminh.com/upload/files/9977512553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramen.com/uploads/files/91350618693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testagenda1.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/47329914085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pscworld.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70161720851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-serviss.lv/userfiles/file/9252353978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myrbacken.se/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bunasoposekij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/97769433788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/gifujelekebuzujereleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/senumajamofoputivasetut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/lonanesixokukagegifenom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/pawimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanfutemple.urwaydesign.com/data/file/userfiles/files/kaxemawonimurawowuteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=when2work+android+appPDF 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_off0000adee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC605 10468 bytes
SHA-256: f790a945eea7179c540433286e8f1c19bcbae7096fbe7ed7589f1a77a82177c4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ddc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC7 15156 bytes
SHA-256: 7bc9b3f704bdac3594f00c4ca615b417aee502561d8086412cb9a676da0ea048