Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc49fa0b66135a38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:33:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4544975811508f13dec184027ed6b3eb SHA-1: fe788a32cb570a4b7f0d4cdcc3c3676b53603e36 SHA-256: cc49fa0b66135a38c0cd4e8c135705d544af10b41a51dadbc62836d0d257e851
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection as a phishing trojan strongly indicate a malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing sites or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/20919113068.pdf
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5f4eb968d---58591397559.pdf
    • http://benjamin1908.com/clients/f/f4/f4560e3fe432b95d15e234f900dec36a/File/28249744119.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbfee51d83a---26902736595.pdf
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/82808390191.pdf
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/vuvos.pdf
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/259d07ab6aca6629a67a786dc6808afe/mutowuvilusitibil.pdf
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5375dab55f8acabd8e5599de7ef23d71/lomalerugobuzowupa.pdf
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/digavidudegu.pdf
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d4deb08bd3f3cee8e7edbe9bf91baf6/40657746961.pdf
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/mupejixekewavod.pdf
    • https://ystechpro.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/dawakipo.pdf
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9ieg0g8r6fhpbugmvrhammsuu/tuwedapimep.pdf
    • http://amajyuku.com/files/files/sufabevagofukis.pdf
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26b0dbef3bdbd4d4335180bd8984837b/73359329874.pdf
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5372fb649a292fbfbc8da0a6b64d6e3a/rebasufifojup.pdf
    • https://rajaketiga.com/contents//files/21449170741.pdf
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/95678220933.pdf
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/28666003323.pdf
    • http://dsm-trhs68.com/clients/8/81/818e764d3414495a915a5f66638dc9bf/File/lukugagafinoluwakege.pdf
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086870685de5---tumazi.pdf
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da3d1898a3dcd77a6a71893ee4bfd88/89103256220.pdf
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c0765ad9e---gekenaregasapiwakewuxa.pdf
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/855647ddf4fb83a7861cf036703c3a88/77058750731.pdf
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081552db4a4c---kovafaxina.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=a+lot+of+time+synonym
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed9e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED9E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000105b0.bin
3ef3789990562b20d8fc5bf2695229d64e2a58e0dd0398427d71616dfe9b546c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B0 17436 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013247.bin
55ed304eb9e75ebde9bed30cadf350f2841e57b87827213838895193260449f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13247 10208 bytes