Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c649c08a7d2537f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:23:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3d9f89c3e840cac29da41c5b41192740 SHA-1: aeb685e09a33c2cab3da59228a8da341819c23fc SHA-256: c649c08a7d2537f199d1ed906dd59fad435c8fd9cfdfd9876235c530ff970649
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or link farms hosted on disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure victims to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://hgb.se/filer/file/sovezi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ryyw.com/upload/files/2021/08/202108232325128670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mepapazuvodukobun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da4vjr3p8rdsmjl6qcd3mm4vo3/52703352027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bf4d2e3eb---12722506416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f481b5e08155d34304ca0c94969dde7/luxojugoluresovirid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slaterlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4982fb0c42a0ae360928bc759c31ba1d/jexadubeburanedukikowaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/towizosove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/waxumibijegafixaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fatebonitug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srinivasagroup.com/ci/userfiles/files/81752097177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/nironesepab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafordexstudents.com/clients/0/05/05b3dbe7dd9dc6f92b523d2b721f2ffd/File/9952404559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leasing.net.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nudubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/6742289845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drentmedischadvies.nl/uploads/files/wuzivifijiwixudofivemuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/sexusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e95a72d00---13394975114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad81443202c2820178b9060b289dd88c/zaxozebeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2f2194ccc6---20053624487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fcudsss560kccatpvook0kkqn/70641241679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e511445a052---9416862306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulsamemorialclass1969.com/clients/8/8b/8b8b36ecbaf17f244e47af75a29dfbe2/File/49771359655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nnetworks.com/files/others/bemawufoxafitovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straps.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zobesabusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/xoxevuserexalirilolure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105210915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=free+similes+worksheet+2nd+gradePDF 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_off0000cd69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD69 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 1b0f2b2bf99b7b81020175a668d65e8111079eb070dfd5a771fc461438aad422
font_01_sfnt_off0000e690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE690 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fea2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA2 16240 bytes
SHA-256: 74406882dfa96902fcb1e211004bcff8bc1a5100bf5dff189562365eec23a30f