Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47ce8f10813fa5e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-10-07 20:32:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 0ea438c064cadc7e103fd5c809052626 SHA-1: 25bde1425bb148e98b26385a2979af0e41f3f598 SHA-256: 47ce8f10813fa5e12da20c8f48f86d8301108c892ce3c760770663f0cd06383c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a malicious document designed to exploit user trust through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=career+objective+for+warehouse+manager PDF link annotation
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/userfiles/file/fabelegeruzikogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skipjackpoke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70228454787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungquanghieu.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/6687989701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tims.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78603456124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozanetiket.com/TasarimAcarnet/serhali/upload/files/76345108913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210903_060615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterky.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47731495211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonioloclaudio.it/userfiles/files/dulijadodisigowogevos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/rulosoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613472e9b3973---28712571869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elandtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_51C53793E26B72A2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/69108356878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprofitnesstrainers.com/userfiles/file/zixufuwinalivipikajukuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intekcanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lisemobofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/82604989602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gs02fgkm9trp141bsm65ihe9k1/15659110656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieucoingason.vn/files/teziwumukode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d05463cf8---mopobepumugofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangladeshceramicsociety.com/uploads/editor/files/91698059698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szigmetal.hu/editor_up/51837388563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekorob.pl/userfiles/file/reralirazijilejux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermanosgolbano.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpfile/fizegegadivuboni.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_off0000bc8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC8F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A1 15916 bytes
SHA-256: 5135ad2636bf6da1a1b0920a4c909606088fcc24717bfe468e954b020214ed5b
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD43 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 74bf37a715210e927719449cf7c3027e2f419bec07d41d17e90d204e22c101b9