Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47b58fa430e28b99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-08-08 21:27:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9a36e2bf2ad94b1ae87122c2b3f6a9b6 SHA-1: 76091ddda573657c4beb9d7c8ef6eca3cc201ec6 SHA-256: 47b58fa430e28b99901bd5045a4d4c71cae24ed1ffda254af150ecca63c75675
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt to track user interactions, common in phishing or spam campaigns. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution 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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=los+caracoles+historia+de+sus+letras+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xivitarujazitijivotetaken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8c8b159a4---30070344749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/xumivavixovakosizebajom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1efacd13a99c3c9f489d8156cd1bdfb5/35138558089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moristas.com/userfiles/files/pedepeberexagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3a8211730b---nuloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taiwancy.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/zijenulinitilovab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arab-hams.com/Ups/files/xepewuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b5b19dd51---kajugobofijoruzagetatuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c0710041---89436886740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb495988a9---sexakufoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26846909d3---wamuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/50137827503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/142766f10baa3e31b5892c8e89ad776c/kodelotuwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://montpellier-business-plan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/dowavekid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uabmjkrakku68uatlip4uk5jg2/40151659205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/pesiwenarifogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mukki09hpugn3a9dsnoil6juum/bovawidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/serilefanuxazilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v53apdca23omqih42dkmkfvibf/69959685743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/65524171404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a419dfb4ac7---93859780608.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_off0000d420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD420 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC37 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 7475d97fdce8e31cb52e698991a78847840042ee0bdb6ca954e22380314cd231
font_02_sfnt_off000104c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C3 17528 bytes
SHA-256: 077c557f5d3513299dc5de2c9b9abd615b18a37cefbe16b751bfe5e678c0906d