Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47fcc5e7da967db4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-26 19:18:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e4a98c0290aaf7947bc0c71da5c79338 SHA-1: 033a12e48aa4ad1480de592fd78168f38b3af57e SHA-256: 47fcc5e7da967db46b0798102599266955d23a4ceecc4777f2cabc0e8c61eda9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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 http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387d615e871---17737233596.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sistemagestiondpr.com/userfiles/file/37515656800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adrijbbb.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/34810068047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantcontinuity.com/membership/data/files/dumilumilibajole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lignumweb.com/site/webroot/uploads/files/doriwuluxunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.info/files/files/dukazuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibericadearmerias.com/file/nebupigizana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161399ad933a24---71505671917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24148180965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nibuxupoliwagasukujopid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaushalango.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/55045611732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613953f9aa328---90467195812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://my-natural-style.net/upload/files/zusofosenuxuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210904_075054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crisismobile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/forotubabovidil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/rolinivoniriletori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/44303791951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/16031255519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144d91c63d9f---5867458247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sino-web.net/filespath/files/20210904112651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inunekocp.jp/mailmagazine/upload/files/titupapojujirukaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quimicahj.com/admin/userfiles/userfiles/file/65482887827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/zokonokika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trieuduong.com/images/Download/pamawukogodovogujuget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metamorfoza-krosno.pl/userfiles/file/nesoxidap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnartourism.com/uploads/file/negezoloragidorepogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=gta+san+andreas+apk+free+download+full+version+for+androidPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b51b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB51B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD2D 17628 bytes
SHA-256: 3618c44af8f737e6bbb12c6a9fd7da34fe8e95cce9d40667ae17fc3f77edef89
font_02_sfnt_off0000faaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAAF 10872 bytes
SHA-256: aefb32930e59daa94f748d6ba2b4f8232d22357bfa07edb3f093f4adb435c40b