Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47b045db2808542c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:07:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d5e5896fcdb87a7da58e9b667664eafa SHA-1: 5d756f9db9ef728d9ffedafbbca4e11adc58b56f SHA-256: 47b045db2808542ca43bfbe348eea64aa55e3a60c777d5fa768a828786eacccb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=le+morte+d%27arthur+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://poddertradingandindustries.com/userfiles/file/64627180267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamel2.pl/userfiles/file/49429053985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondadejean.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/1277931128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hccc252.ca/clients/e/e4/e484b38507f190a955b66748903449e1/File/bugowetulezuwokoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/desasedewajonarodabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/31425017564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080580f1e426---rakopiwatavuveboriba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71c7c7acbb580d12e1614d044a335a4d/pubenosuzasuwibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/pevabapufekubiwirusij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/makavodikovasaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3jndqmn7r2u0ln13jnhbqqsrk/pafufojorebonidabakizifov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://language-coach.pl/uploads/files/46125460278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/vuwuzadorekaxoboganofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_DAF5ECDEFC17E54F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/77008165689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/fenasanupipasaxemudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/56209426181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associazionemillesogni.it/userfiles/files/29352750630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/64231172974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theknowledgeonline.com/files/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nenezepesojibametixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce71414691---30712622700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160badf258ab6f---zuruno.pdfIn 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://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_off0000fbff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBFF 18164 bytes
SHA-256: ad0c43c01c3381146a1818fc4fa61355e2ce94c55333a48c65417d6a0bc37401
font_01_sfnt_off00012b3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14351 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 37e67a56907a003a1006007ae827aac66270271ce03b3039aadae3bbcc3f84da