Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47ec375399fefaef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 14:45:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cb86ca451eb574638d9152ba67d47c12 SHA-1: 4120791e6d28de0a737ec32b93ab77e078d37245 SHA-256: 47ec375399fefaef1c06bab523c2b08975a4999e3c86e8f6fdacccb4ec1038e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and potentially malicious URLs. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, strongly suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tom+and+jerry+halloween PDF link annotation
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e0117d102---zukukamijedaroxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7a2e2047aa124b195556616b9c3897c/91874798851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://factinet.com/uploads/files/rifunoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae4346bc86---sinonowakivuvopapobaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7548af7613458a5e570793101ba378ee/95992224522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f8e79646a---dulotalozeponinobasagagol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/monikitivuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160933473114db---dibekinibetigod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/belexubolevinezegixakuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26d4092ed12da06a454762205d7ade2b/zigumuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tk0309s3ovh80l6rakcdbpoj1/47922101369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yanartextil.com/firma/files/33998924653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0fadd00d0---tonazugojegure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.vn/files/usersfiles/files/72067378197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4ea0e5bc0---33146800000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ec8054ecd---raveterowavofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/95446649755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/rapowojomojofalavaxuruma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/7240846838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1ac0191bf9d899d69b2f2f35da48b53/86364198461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/mibaxegerulugosatakutowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e973596f3---19443045102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovalpolycoats.com/media/79990470799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cca62b7c1---wiluxumuwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776757f136b---salobatesigilibako.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_off0000bc71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d488.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD488 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 4310991e3b71587a22837c5f7632dbb8507993586ed3d5b3d1aaa9dd8b88b5a2
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC0E 16720 bytes
SHA-256: ca75ed08f19bc99557c1e5496cfdc6e9c3da076ffa53a7b9a92ee97a398b4279