Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f49d46f8ab0dcad5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:02:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d0f470ff8be30d0c65c0f23f7baf3a54 SHA-1: 594b2b2f8e5bf047a393c741961ba49796136ef9 SHA-256: f49d46f8ab0dcad5bc9aeee86e3e5371eb19f564ce069d0e810741584d23ed8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://asfcursillo.com/clients/879797/File/32611156115.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609580de44ac0---rabunogimabofetibowenixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844df5e98b0---40216794217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tamimigurexozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c1a30aaceb485f4b2a8bf11c9c2d919/tepovalazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/19624817584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210527_9F197DA067CEF0A0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.comperat-89.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6629260513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ita.kru.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941b51d6c59---64346671341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/28073088462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msvadba.ru/files/file/xeramokewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/pazobatowasoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0247ddb732fae4d16f96a67e10cac54/98587298467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ville-saintleonard.fr/pdf/99470678341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decaiyun.com/upload/file/210731153347139543mrcpfhea3e16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947bbe70709---22898203508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787f7224cd0---jibupakozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/knkc524guakis6ovq3p6ouktbd/pixisokilerelesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a613a490969---vimoteviwezasanisedebux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/50681090816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunaapartman.hu/images/user/file/kuxegozunutikekusosagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca963bc889---wupegizidezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=jkkp+6+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_off0000fca6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000114b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114B8 21568 bytes
SHA-256: d8209a3e1bddde1848711ef4bab1e201b48ecb097fad00ccaf117c70b6e44b9f
font_02_sfnt_off000149b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149B8 9720 bytes
SHA-256: 35f09791c26926e875b61b6b2a0063c7b643fb64dc314e669f9d0de6097841cd

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