Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d049486d20b19318…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:35:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: dbc5473fb769365688d79b144ccb2c42 SHA-1: 8410c110fb71b9685992301b5e613bee0e24b07d SHA-256: d049486d20b19318c8b8f68c50c4415afb7ab34681313e3e55b52d250f96be8a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=el+cancer+de+mama+en+mexico+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://jagamimpi.net/contents/files/tatosafigud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/gatotirup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28o6c13ccp6m3vndjrmdlj7m5b/nolomixajodozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yepsell.com/userfiles/files/sanimozodazurafobevasefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8asqp9mjs1mbtubddenrnn2uv7/69290496556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131fa1d9a80a---gatalumuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2412fe8d09---96315212732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/28967907229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe38b802e4---31851806661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezastupitelstvo.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/rakewazurovotifewepalot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universe-micro.com/upload/files/20210625_205117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://local-atlas.ru/userfiles/files/67978211025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1090402f58f0f2d0fabb34a5bdb4593a/pularidonukelotubufomoxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b6fda6a8e---75787713247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progetec.org/userfiles/files/25286486567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773d6776a99---dixavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/fuxudufaxujanurituf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1plensnuicjsqbj19s270uc3sg/89478479914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e23d829300d---lulolaxufubolutifoviriwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa2t2tpqt69lvse5802d3b8uk2/55933031106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/3908108355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/793d526263a8c2b8752f8ba11bd1ba56/28900105813.pdfIn 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://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_off0000d3d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D2 10600 bytes
SHA-256: e3eefb653e4e3ded1437705942c312836d6bb7d2c8a2b7529875b13d0ecb3d56
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF1 21136 bytes
SHA-256: 5944d28ba9ef327a939e0d3c471e4b8dff352e6c195f494d3000ace378ddfd48
font_02_sfnt_off000120f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1