Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47d174fa58e866fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:56:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0774ac423b08b88f278b5432ad33506c SHA-1: 58dac1996ecae3e890689d403c889df3cd8e0a30 SHA-256: 47d174fa58e866fd94f93dae055e270eb6e3d942f41a9f997244c053074ae384
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs suggests a phishing or malware distribution vector, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fault+in+our+stars+pdf+book
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fh5m9gchddr44t7sr8v4pl3ts6/bojirob.pdf
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce5c939982---nemujeminukefem.pdf
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608439e468ee2---xedolarezon.pdf
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a64f0a0637adb0c5449c31d7df0c8989/28397177602.pdf
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/jowisofikamufifeviguzuz.pdf
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b36cc424d4e625916d1f9fa079671eb/morafeporilazowoxijof.pdf
    • http://bwc.lt/i/jagamerulamesujazexiba.pdf
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hnttl9pim64o6o1n8ahsl51rg0/pezogutakemu.pdf
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a980d2ab166---nawagevelanu.pdf
    • https://sanxuattrucauthangkinh.com/Images_upload/files/75180075048.pdf
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0f95c2072---60289746934.pdf
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25bfc4dcc1bdb80c9df75cf6a9c5d8d3/97116351888.pdf
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ed28f440a2b1dfa74a6fc7fc72d2704/wojokiwovoj.pdf
    • http://werder-ritter.de/UserFiles/File/sawusokinudirazi.pdf
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/69783636110.pdf
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ebbd2b497e14d7779465f2e92bf88cf/78230940741.pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ofuig2ft6qud4oorcr7429n9q/56715369457.pdf
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd79724e908---48500583899.pdf
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/fuxavijanogufibe.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99e122f3769b378a531dc47f22d9142f/61688933200.pdf
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64943ce1451263bc9fbbd8097a7296ce/19161521353.pdf
    • https://grup-insaat.com/userfiles/file/rezetexovupepebenuxexe.pdf
    • http://fusheng-vietnam.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/12640458273.pdf
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/90267813533.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb50.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB50 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011362.bin
c834d4c96d2e5c679e35faed3d092b96ca4b19b84bef72799946062ceed28d4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11362 17464 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000140b8.bin
5578d557abdb49b54e62c61ee3c06f1738f0e0f1b7008c1ffd90c63b1ab7d127
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140B8 10668 bytes