Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47832825ba80ebf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.9 KB Created: 2021-06-14 19:34:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: de11ba578d0b1d18ccaecb3ace40f1af SHA-1: 567dfe65972404fcc00f8259e1529a13bebe5fd2 SHA-256: 47832825ba80ebf4255b33f9d5341c9dc5756442c20e9b2d4976f858dcb8ea84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, and the presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics confirm the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+model+mehndi+design+images PDF link annotation
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d3094e124---poleluxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eeb77e73a919a01ef8526f501e8bc3b/lumovenigadetarelitabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4i8nt9h8dnqli5ud37srcfm74/zidavamixesitaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/65252483464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37f0825ae279fde2af1a813a8c205048/gawowomarameka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988947bd41c---6696413102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/wedawisis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/lefemej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847f897f41f---sivizeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/jagulijufagozudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26b2fc069093e3a129f012edeff00a9b/wowiminexorotifonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021043018101573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e4309c7fd---8606789855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9d6afc924b654dde61eea8ebba25e4d/87864802358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757ce74db13---bomafogelowosovotevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608070c56fc17---febuponogiposivi.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
    • 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_off00015fad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15FAD 5204 bytes
SHA-256: 2dec7d3ba611e255c59c3f801a78eff4ce66d499bfb6fe2f6fb566d1fe3cb57a
font_01_sfnt_off0001714b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1714B 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 916ffea08cc60f70f8ff48e41eafab6be597196f91d74be65e29264abd7c3865
font_02_sfnt_off0001947f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1947F 16312 bytes
SHA-256: bf8f9ece8d9d74ce2d7a98a07ee1bb8f4056faf702b3b1702118181e85f1b939