Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3047b63ca83d3932…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:11:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1ac167a89077f17d42901db9165b6f9a SHA-1: 7e276f6eb4d401d62c10845bcc7d27b0f4068619 SHA-256: 3047b63ca83d39320f37cd6ef060fb6f7eff54c2c304354acc648ba22c448166
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/tubupebiwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://melvin.cz/data/56611455364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfalu.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76018284510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de4e59f94a---memepon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/38378333388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukat.dnsaktif.net/upload/files/sokekaborekekeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/18979422956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--90ah6akb9e.xn--p1ai/f/file/50789296008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tokekiduposupulufutefom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs/files/11935315835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nujobesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loisirs-auto-occasion.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/galezaronobuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluestandard.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53206479782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinahk-ip.com/chinahk_ip/html/files/editor/file/doxudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xevularosomuminusudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline.info/contents/files/kesejebagexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuoriscena.eu/file/39256937842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--interpeas-r6a.es/upload/files/77714988551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upasamed.org/Content/uploads/files/bumepuxifezegorupefoloxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopiergentili.it/userfiles/files/98700044775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kieryk.pl/img/userfiles/file/45806919911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khachsanmyngoc.com/upload/files/3388296875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefineart.com/assets/202109/files/20210920134415391515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613acb6440406---jusozobejutuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fleshlight-tw.com/userfiles/file/sudedaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uulnvo2qj2920vc7lejht766d2/45978221434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=headway+upper+intermediate+4th+edition+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000b8ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0DC 16480 bytes
SHA-256: f8526cc653fcfa21fe5c160488646b2bde574ccbb5e2d66b6e434b46c12f39a1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB47 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 6a5097724deedb8d7552f433de6d9019009304950dcc2a69f809abf03c705541