Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e49038a26ec95a23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-25 03:51:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7b95b7922ad6588a955d77b9619c5672 SHA-1: e47618b235d817eeb31e070bc0b3390a245af59c SHA-256: e49038a26ec95a23a1f2983a433dde1ce2d5aa56d160287994898119c32d741b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal that the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. These links likely serve as a lure for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sufiyum+sujathayum+mp3+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://equinox-e.com/upload/UserFiles/file/70426367443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b706e7fa9c---dabujimijaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/32300975864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/ritoziwematozomiserogeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portoggitter.no/content/files/userfiles/file///29225008430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.com/eros/userfiles/file/79570999235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/58890368260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basalyemek.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21673648815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntouioc.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28305030086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umartravel.com/files/76738460977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gcr.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/84942216588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358553badf0---tuwenosivar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c1f52a6db---pifomutamibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/gosovutoworimajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210925_AAEA834E01C65A7F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2ruoteexpo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/melugaralilovirenelogegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.irafbrothers.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/26588635670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurochen.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/74551889465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/zomoditidatekiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/pijebitisefulukesomoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/81324382307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613abc5fab614---97485643102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/fojemejagevemu.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_off0000af58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF58 14764 bytes
SHA-256: 0539182f0291cafb2c589dbbb071e72e4d1fa1d78a24b7991d9f51866a754e15
font_01_sfnt_off0000d45c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD45C 11440 bytes
SHA-256: b6b25bccf2e44697a9e258ce31956f5ee02185ec64861c3a3cc574521655e382
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF3D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1