Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47d0d8faab1213e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.8 KB Created: 2021-07-29 17:09:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5e90bcae88da4186a976adba12451525 SHA-1: 16c023231aeaaf95f422d96e172a55fbc0a6fe60 SHA-256: 47d0d8faab1213e5c1e58fcccd02931421f6262b9d23b811d22459ef5360c228
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic indicates the primary goal is to redirect users to potentially harmful external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 5

  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+print+envelopes+on+hp+envy+7155 PDF link annotation
    • http://psn-monolit.ru/img_file/files/15067122099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7696300632db810577a4f7fe801daba7/talomedonidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/26783212369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22ce3a1809e2d0e1200dfa16fae33594/44008592246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/51703499010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/dixaruzemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608756d0c2396---kubupedose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/39013613482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/30333686861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05e156fmaau3n0noltj0n3acdk/tiwubaneruwuduzuribatak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/87345879846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbb436fc88facffea9431da73bf4f4f0/zidirimufanejomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/008261de97f8627681de52ceed41b525/podisanozipose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/42238838137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colescastle.com/clients/875019/File/30898839692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfalu.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50576231145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auditorescr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nikugigakurowevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96b31ef27ada203bb95cc71c94991c52/zulaguveresono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082eef23b214---14797332658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2db5fa9e9ab25bd563d2078c93f7890/vonijobazuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/dojefilovinubewobarazoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2664595726---37127870740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunbulsa.org/~ewedd2/userfiles/file/rakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/45275228016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cda8b7426ce---vuxasoveladizozaxab.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_off00011f75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F75 17012 bytes
SHA-256: ee2837f58736078dc050573ce22eb9798843c18010d486c7747e0ae3d74cd400
font_01_sfnt_off00014bea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16401 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 28b10a83f035990dbcc0fb5a2cd61355ddd8e5d7d6323b8e738480d589a231da