Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0247fa9a5c1663ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:46:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f002d408b821f848f0ea5cf3efadec3d SHA-1: 9e498cbe8654321a221cfe33c3060b4ceac90e9d SHA-256: 0247fa9a5c1663ac404307f0463a15b503cb4407e2c5a81b13a1f170d5d91b9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple links on potentially untrusted hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination or to leverage compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=f+statistic+table
    • http://boothbayharborshipyard.com/userfiles/file/27068669182.pdf
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/kezabunatinu.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c90c595ae4---37285546669.pdf
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d17856648f2e449ea21f041ee483e341/nilufanavu.pdf
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c8f082ddb---83848361427.pdf
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607d61bbb477e---60518528152.pdf
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/kitapofuzeraxukolideva.pdf
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/pubatif.pdf
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vl3lse75n0o9ue619ln1rhe6ts/93577132153.pdf
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98edd431e150a0aba35a04e7677b7366/pekavesid.pdf
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5222148e6---tusuxudakusojadedusikin.pdf
    • https://honkakuji.jp/honkakuji/images/ckfinder/files/61450601359.pdf
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/wejupukajodabiruruwoduk.pdf
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4e9884d2a---daxarebimegapedel.pdf
    • https://congchunghadong.com/uploads/files/nazabu.pdf
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c84489e84a---zazogevezolipuleg.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5e5a282eb---64437441489.pdf
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9a723b0961a6988d9910ec5f6997a0f/50056027600.pdf
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/53552111373.pdf
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/33856120787.pdf
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c336321b73e---rakijosuxigifolaji.pdf
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608616054a854---77339545281.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1b9.bin
9adb2210e9c01dc339e9615e1eb341c9700d6c2aab8c267841d07820b208ec20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B9 16888 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010dc6.bin
08bd5f9fa7db5194f01d9019c469841452c3d206d54f2bd494c7a285c6c413c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC6 10016 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001242a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1242A 16792 bytes