Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47f389d1facc7854…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:56:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 49cbd072685f4153ae3fc6ad359b1630 SHA-1: 6b72bc0bcb04e0b03bdc1e422200537858c96c36 SHA-256: 47f389d1facc7854bec921866c0e63a809675a479623523661f22a4882a5c5dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fluid+and+crystallized+intelligence+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.cbs-emballages.com/upload/file/wilemokirilujedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sewakendragroup.com/userfiles/file/55280533667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesushiscv.com/uploads/files/58745965244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098074aaf63c---kofimaginevozeruvifunosop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-pro.com/userfiles/files/39538971483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.addvanceo.info/userfiles/files/31668126639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/karejixelavebokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/giketab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/45154254567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766a0b75060---mevovulubavepubajudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ok9j66fjfephc9eu6as57ovjv2/dipepumemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57e20e2a60036dca40389ba276075c88/powokowepirixud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/15444599584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/napfm5mo9g4mvcvos2s7coav0o/fakid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/13553299319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/somebotopubabilokomutovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2gt3qg68jcubpsgnda1p04c57/fiwojotufabegive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dcab91ae28---33815470971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161188c52258a6---61489239775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vadamanilesigofusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennycojewelry.com/userfiles/files/202106/1623398320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff5a1ef18f---metorotuponilibejara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/xikoloxuzesamerazono.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_off00010731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10731 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 6c917d003002474e81dfd5dc7b0c54d497878813242dbc538ff546fb83081eb0
font_01_sfnt_off00012075.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12075 18788 bytes
SHA-256: 804470ad32e51248d2ff9a6d95d4666197e262e4fc0c76e51dded314bd2d30d5
font_02_sfnt_off00015144.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15144 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1