Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a47b6a3a0d74758…

MALICIOUS

PDF

179.4 KB Created: 2021-06-21 17:35:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 59fbbfa67f4682282deb3f5e29734d5d SHA-1: ed49948084a3bec38f53366b8c2a026844e602d9 SHA-256: 0a47b6a3a0d74758ff74e42748b79b1c52619dfe0ceae6fa00b22be4109b5d95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=9+bpd+traits PDF link annotation
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/puvujotipolaxuworerexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e45436f40bd2a8738d16d6916a6e860/godawowirumoxujafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021531643556817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859d6e15b77---89570154847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f3f5eb9df---48776731839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cca742515c---jexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda64513c9f---3920483188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082673ee2f29---mokebuworibozawerexeson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juegosinflablesarizona.com/files/80300081976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23633638461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/81156634971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/529bbcd93d12b024f6e4d82f8a996437/nodezep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7631e43fab443317afe620037a6f8585/gixitinokudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b95dd8f40d2---54936199626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968a8bf342b---81648777417.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00028543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28543 5124 bytes
SHA-256: 7c6181f49e6a740ca5b35df3a2bd0b3dcf9edccc7656080fec2ba185bc8b8fd3
font_01_sfnt_off000296a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x296A2 13104 bytes
SHA-256: 5a89699859b6c3ca690a6b9388d0a5cab7fc7fb3596bb981ded3eba49a6c8441