Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47cee08182193976…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-10 06:06:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bf4192854204b132181b9c6a500e7dd6 SHA-1: e7748e423c3964436d330c558065b334ccca8afa SHA-256: 47cee081821939760e3dbd856b2f6a608090ade05a0044fd3a878469ad58f915
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO poisoning or phishing. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e2289a6004488479027f33678df42eb/87285992220.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://el-tall.pl/pics/file/35066318199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddhaart.in/userfiles/file/15014872578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkoplast.rs/files/94185721925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ximangsongthao.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/jufawudiwase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazragame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/72509748052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whatproperty.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vebawexukofijokupetefutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aguito.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vepopululavexonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maivietnamesecotati.com/uploads/files/63142338610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f2d72128b25916916b1c2c909f5151c/dobokejojira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210906092903_450039285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budaors.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/voxijepase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/dovapolewomemuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafehinglung.com/uploads/files/vusumodewejugivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/pidiniwuparozulalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161323cc9eee0c---kepuxodojeluvopibide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/ninavepomokukeruponumanin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/13233331088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpokedb.com/uploads/files/91368207932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/91658081853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1666-3668.com/attach/userfiles/file/gevavoxejelakegunibebez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a82fd543526a8e098c38d9657454fdab/zanuwunuderujagirezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinsg.com/files/fckeditor/file/pivega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3e696db22---86616488545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=grand+theft+auto+v+apk+obb+file+download+for+androidPDF 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_off0000d49f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD49F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB6 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 00251a959d4d5fe2517409b3a9cbc68b25507d5b2ff98638a9d2f1a0f4187965
font_02_sfnt_off000105cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105CC 18860 bytes
SHA-256: a15c4e2f91245abe56319c5e894f7815558f741bead6d7a51872628de851826e