Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47d0b1085708cc7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 09:20:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 270ba64aa566f82bbd6e76f8cd851ec2 SHA-1: 74cbd578db23d1696102598486bb8f7bae0efce5 SHA-256: 47d0b1085708cc7bb1adcf3b7bd25e713723c493382078f0ae2ba5251c74ee61
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, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+makes+minecraft+fun PDF link annotation
    • http://xn-----6kcaheblih5ab0a6afqbzoqe.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vavotalumozok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/pipagaxufif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-10/20210910095813267818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/33855449498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/xoloko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felicityokolo.com/file/44269511044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341e2415eff---gonugoxotidege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burragebrothers.net/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/13239247447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushibelovo.ru/files/88870128129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19042637215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://principesgs.com/userfiles/file/bazepinafexalimutamob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353ad1a4693---57651138525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_99CB01E5EA332256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotacjedlaoze.pl/userfiles/file/37495632806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotbamboo.com/file_media/file_image/file/xubapitozevaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knupress.com/pds/editor/file/59408206420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamaxmotor.cz/data/dokumenty/jukukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbaze.lv/images/userfiles/files/75891461343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/xawiliguzisori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pagyesa.org/userfiles/file/20210906044822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptindia.com/newsimages/file///25174011284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903205626997996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemental-ia.com/userfiles/file/38034045835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coiffurenais.com/userfiles/file/muxufumusamavokogifufavuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/75737536364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eska-lift.ru/userfiles/file/wuwaxogasupaxona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b29d1ed4d---vurig.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_off0000f0e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E1 17400 bytes
SHA-256: b368b951fb6f9e2562bfaa11122493fcdcb4dbf5b272f06efc0cb3a25962dbe5
font_01_sfnt_off00011e25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E25 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 9114fb9865cb56bcfe072912d803f8bddd93d886e50c3ad81a2b5b569da4f419
font_02_sfnt_off00013646.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13646 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1