Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca049763906f12ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-06-13 02:55:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4e5cd67f22cb1a66544a9427dbd25d51 SHA-1: c17e751e4f56e4d643fb1f98d115c9e2cbce8043 SHA-256: ca049763906f12ed3a0e55489fbbbcc2b4da04f6daf37b28f8a7fa60f33c3ec3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ramayan+instrumental+ringtone PDF link annotation
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/99485729606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r77rg41qqub1akdd1ivt836d82/topol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0396514cad91fd313c0b709515f727f8/gesufemovugigedonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd5a4e6f8a---17974164769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/xirefibejikelevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb5461ef4fb364ea74115b148761432c/41416177511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4150580720c9a6ec2a812f04d0903cac/56988356190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d58c90767bf3a843e4e8c963931e4cb7/kijajegaligobilasidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7tec.ru/userfiles/files/13013473655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/ripugujofitifolukosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb6af1aa2f---98123183475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/60664632840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d648a79273454c710c2f15e9c0154931/mupezizebujusejofuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cec84449db84cd518cfc1300c2f1a954/65427603225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivaco.it/file/54385216149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/25625785182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cfb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB6 5112 bytes
SHA-256: b34bff93e7c01d69193c42fc8941215abfbd8ecb0ba222c5e9307be0180079bd
font_01_sfnt_off0000e115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE115 10696 bytes
SHA-256: c8904966a1ea285582e36aeeb0c0a630224ff435c142a70ee5524bbe8d3c9327
font_02_sfnt_off000105c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C1 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 2699f2ce65472362c7cce2649b9a1ca315f2f35cd4c84f2de76f8c9cc61a5f56
font_03_sfnt_off00011e63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E63 7948 bytes
SHA-256: 6dff86d1ae210118c0154c96e9ebe5ebd852db6e3b8235acd775587099303c9d