Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47d326de933dc95b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 16:53:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8a8c520cb3832daf90dcfd1edb5deeec SHA-1: e9bb90b891fb26b6f1d60047606edacb34b085c4 SHA-256: 47d326de933dc95b579a93a3f9e55988253afb3dd46746bf07ccc269826f1c30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the PDF structure point towards a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=law+firm+names+in+usa PDF link annotation
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gmdcj8b2f9cc6o0uh47l5pa8uo/57664205293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szsahsh.com/uploads/files/papigos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7da127e97---nifiwufuruduwoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63c05365956c81daaddb0a91b79b0629/fovepujurapadazimuxujapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54d7c615297165fb585c5955b2070b40/boguzanefowodotatefudere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05a757fbf8bfd12d0f2e4da270aa0cc6/tozonodupupebupaginifunar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66ac13f2e4---55748335346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/se1mn5vtn0dv7enhi10lo9n8od/jagojikazixapinovexokuwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c3e16c686---rogixuzozojutenevewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ck83h8pcu0no5rhqa72m9ut3f3/sugoruguvegituguxabed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mofupedavorizike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad97df3011e---soparefumamazudagarutenen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097317cb0815---giwuzaruxovowagegip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/jufetalafefutozefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f88192bc1---guxikumovometuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ae27c67cd---91876142624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094677e20061---xajaxenarazexenile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/tasoneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e6934ddb00---44613706783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/59789694402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/532aa74797948a5d3f106fcfe340d952/34568465043.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_off0001054b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011d62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D62 10252 bytes
SHA-256: 9b1893c857e52182037f15129402104024086e56ec407489c39a0bcf55254d98
font_02_sfnt_off0001346b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1346B 17108 bytes
SHA-256: 42f86f3ad0817b460661988c1a07169635809b1d353625f15e4bd9da71f5a448