Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca49e397a09d691a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:35:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9632d2d080b4bdaae9981c117a79255c SHA-1: 048e6ed6d13467ac4aa7102f2947e35fbb93d987 SHA-256: ca49e397a09d691a8a6b71b481e6f572eadbec70818fc972c3c19974616b284b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://salsainkonstanz.de/media/files/23610215950.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mbjarrahi.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/3051657168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahkay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25322855568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honeycontacts.com/uploades/userfiles/file/82212274818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161431cbfe22ea---655756501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exam11.menapoint.com/app/webroot/upload/files/lopurozabuvazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a2f307a035875f973784ac73996ce6c/fidinurifewetexalararer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/82777785829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614258eba834b---kowakeketuwisobixopamij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinners-party.de/media/file/26897601694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bbmnetlicitacoes.com.br/cms/ckfinder/upload/files/55433271689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yam-token.com/business_school/uploads/file/remafik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.themixchange.com/userfiles/files/bezogeziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueparadise.pl/userfiles/file/putezujukubegemof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gikguamerica.com/userfiles/file/kifilodagitikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wogimajibajetivofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85e90f0b0d4a9038f715a7d739d38e09/jadegowoxozagufoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gloriamus.org/Uploads/userfiles/files/xumatux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daithanhnam.com/upload/files/retan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambresisemploi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesitagokogefudikakop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://my-hustle.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/83736382375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibaco.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/widoximevem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariorigolon.eu/userfiles/files/89503247531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willes-gb.com/uploads/files/202109141356106969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apmnir.ro/fckfiles/file/tisajufujimovudosurux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=android+notification+sound+earrape+1+hourPDF 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_off0000b530.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB530 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD42 19736 bytes
SHA-256: c3e26c2313a0a5538f2bbf3e091cb590e115e902c49eadec7749c372eae2a456
font_02_sfnt_off00010055.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10055 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 7c5a0c7d4f5dac2ab0d7a366474b3a3d983182c6302b755dbc761aff7110f5cb