Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d49ca00e014f0add…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 09:16:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: fc178bf50ba1b00243153e39acff4034 SHA-1: 459df915ca5c3031a45d4fc9f134e717e34af06d SHA-256: d49ca00e014f0addf37c72ea713e04dec69351a091723359c616bab42245e4b9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, many of which host further PDF files. This pattern is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver further malicious content or lead users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://wmasgroup.com/userfiles/file/77194215562.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bernendorf.ru/userfiles/file/46011961735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proart.by/media/file/77911476947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f96ab18d95---neputenefifafusajedikotug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ebd51700de---xajexovexobojixitobewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140580412afc---93541042970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/rapunupomupuxipomokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dytac.hk/userfiles/80065700466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accounting789.com/ThImg/file/gulowupaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/8241445769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenicekentkaplicasi.com/userfiles/file/2694096656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syekp.gr/sites/default/files/file/53293061383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146ba30f4105---9632177567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47d244f2d1be8747d9a22b3388761e4c/50637071566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szigmetal.hu/editor_up/21877881372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a16568e1e5371b2ba5785f1708f56706/wopifaduranejupigovoxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alident.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/perogana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovatepc.com/userfiles/file/33471655986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ea41857db9---76508640675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ru755eb5leveo0nu0bsntcfa1/fumetilufaludob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartpaintingplus.com/userfiles/files/rogujosekabisirala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuanfe.com/uploads/FCKeditor/file/nemanavesinovofawawebufig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rcoc0e8rjg61d2t3pslkl5o303/zunasizux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=telugu+reference+bible+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000d725.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD725 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF3C 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 6c44b434b798bbf8c9dc85e79301e0ca9209077ee22e4912e4eac07672b42a54
font_02_sfnt_off000107e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E6 18044 bytes
SHA-256: 29a94fa458097ef0feafad0250fc0c2e6d948ea2609e2c683d47229da4a10322