Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e49950594c15277a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-06-09 01:01:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 47eb08bab6a182fe3ce90ec316c57856 SHA-1: 8e1e2d867e3bb311d8545a9b88e413ae45019da7 SHA-256: e49950594c15277a459aeb629114aca8a140b5da90207bf83be3ebe4fe567ee6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=real+liker+instagram+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607130cb15223---luvedizevepoxupemevivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705436eae71---zuxekimiripoxenebog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e96f69eec02e61201d21c52bb55358be/17237629760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tle38kpshcppvgfmktn81kf3s/pogelixadobelomugowewunom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.org/files/files/nugedowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://henklinders.nl/henklinders/upload/files/8081032450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4be35a737af389a075ee2b74ed787fdc/99237097723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/62301693425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcb603b412---zudotunejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608caff212180---gebidavujonubalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/33884215947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/14597224480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d652b2d874fab8b7fb9014a4ef2b476/20698096806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791c83eb858---ledibupagiwimusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9526f3271b456b23caf18fe2113fdf7/30264712154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fssa8ig566trogk55nmigrhmak/52800985359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e95e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE95E 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 93b649047f7d16af7d48957551a9c87295a84c8550b5ebcf3c4069094def06fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB06 2880 bytes
SHA-256: 9f73aa2f7a4fe175a9f040a1acfe21d06289411f785d262b8fb1e9f969c098f1
font_02_sfnt_off00010766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10766 11220 bytes
SHA-256: f3dc102fb39922641de33a3620f0f9f24e41302fb092d73eb3158b26e1d7c7be
font_03_sfnt_off00012dab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DAB 16376 bytes
SHA-256: 069f5cdcb972b33999f3dc18a3e5b847fc2aa024b7c5b45b4734cedf253a8e5c