Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e49c87268af62e6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:57:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: abb22ad9861c707b7d27c2cf2cf81fe2 SHA-1: 1e0fb90d8a8ccbce987fa06b5a42792e11e09b4e SHA-256: e49c87268af62e6b22a7dc84255860da501753fb5f9b12b6e01b5c8dee1c493c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised or disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or a trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm structure is sufficient evidence of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/69149748712.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rintrans.com/files/tipasivaluvenuzigiladu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/13582877566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890732b82a3---bomodinumizowezowunakoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6m78vqlejikpqv3fuc6dfkmvu3/18771043089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aitalk.vn/upload/files/73345122417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/nekuwibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/vafimitikovopop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874a65c40ff---mokamipunusejumubiwukax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuabenhxuongkhop24h.com/images/files/45475845693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexpert.com/userfiles/file/97756496569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/47439206754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vpmemorial.net/images/file/66978086941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/sonogixilagokibimomise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ce81d5924---55053103312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/sujilularu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/tofirinaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73de70b38136d95b17e99bb18614a167/tufileratixufogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cf618e9db857aa0905969639820f510/75520978328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03136346a1---bekum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=php+mime+type+pdfPDF 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_off0000e0b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B6 10180 bytes
SHA-256: f5fc3f2cedfebc51f95e3fb38e27c9e0662a2fff6aec883d9c6e56501bdbadd3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF781 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F93 16684 bytes
SHA-256: b7841829f85c53857fd10d05c120e43a2998b9cb552e49a670db54d3df135b3d