Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f49616807d7ae562…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-07-13 15:43:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4e22901d8aad9f99d41218222697c125 SHA-1: f5ee193a2b476b9fb6564b8e026fdb8a369411a8 SHA-256: f49616807d7ae562b811cdd9e4928e1e7d2fec0ecee7cb9d0b470a0559ad3616
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host and distribute malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c82ab83d3---resawadotuwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://udclassof1968.com/clients/74076/File/fotovojuketuromezukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.comarticle_ressources/file/51947177827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cd2fcbf4d---lelukime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202104/file/lazojasazitiwakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64d56fdfbce1cd44820e1cc0e7bcffa5/99940531461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bde6635f5d3---kagikewotuwimuludaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31f520c065---devonexulixununupor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df78214daee---boduzitimaxaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/lelek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanruou.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/labuxadefojelawazabapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bbf9e9edf---bipifebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de30037e311a99f9d7b9d7124ee9704a/zazetapibolojobikamafogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/wipafukovafex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telmeed.com/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89468298927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/14415676071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjsolankifoundation.com/fck/imagesfile/87688909460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/wesaxuweniwanisit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b821463f848---23909166025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cf96ed670---xojuwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b85593b11d2---zelaborakarixina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/kawijoxobofaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/17433949604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ba952411c---2573518770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=c%2B%2B+lab+exercises+and+solutions+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_off0000d7ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7CA 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 7fd9f1e719004f74708627a50e79a86d2152c200821142c5cb02cf0c566e87d9
font_01_sfnt_off000105a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A1 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 7c71923813de2858829d3c4fa05717008c22c8a5037f0c93a59c8979226ad7a8
font_02_sfnt_off00011f1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1