Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47b3e736053fa04b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:22:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 828f6d82158df2f411b450af7dea80b3 SHA-1: 2fdd2d256b79110a6340480059fbc180ba19746f SHA-256: 47b3e736053fa04be39d562dce2ab356a5a8e49bc3e7d7028e5ed88ed6e2afc0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via a spearphishing attachment. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142afc814054---19236340174.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://futboltotal.net/images/files/ramusimoguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agjlwjc3g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68077698881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4fm41h2b4eff4os5tf594jh8b/gemov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://araprinter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31020190259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/34618008619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delcinfo.ru/img/files/files/duvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/75884508352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novafish.it/userfiles/files/92622630668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernendorf.ru/userfiles/file/niditipelalorobukiziveru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southerncross-ex.com/images/blog/file/bomimuregifadituvubejeriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metallpress.info/files/75155815887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngusacdon.com/upload/files/64655134914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzxgdz.com/images/upload/File/rejatojiwazase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/sugoxivarozemali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45764722744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siemreaptraveltours.com/userfiles/file/11831256560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrievers.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zizoxubodegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613535266d765---29735113677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161429a7e2707a---38071246843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fastbeatbattlerider.saint-fun.com/assets/upload/files/50355412378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubesubscribers.com/ci/userfiles/files/difikevuwarizebejuvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=download+pixel+live+wallpaperPDF 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_off0000d37b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD37B 10372 bytes
SHA-256: f271f1e3ab35371d27eee8402eb24457d11e1aa8e7d004fcb88f7e44e7ca7dbd
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010318.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10318 17352 bytes
SHA-256: cb4c2aa9139dd9d0da05a7466832bac77d7714fec62a272ab8920a61dbeeeb7c