Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47ff233431bb3241…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-08-19 02:36:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fb6438cfc708b00976a07f2dfd4b1151 SHA-1: 474f75beab0b5793551a0fe1951525180676fd82 SHA-256: 47ff233431bb32414b7c67d40e9b9fd4d6b43d78c9d5cf9ee7f2b745b813f158
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains. The presence of external URIs and link farm patterns suggests an attempt to distribute phishing content or further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bestway+pool+heater+error+code+e1 PDF link annotation
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a672f1cc496---42911575802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tchid.net/userfiles/file/rozipaxizegodud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eachfun.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/jibojoxotedarudezaxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5udua.com/contents//files/kujutujomabizanadepaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cfb0eaa01---4784915379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/wivosizina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8ff5caabb3deb9b1ddc84e39e618381/ninizilukuremarujiromo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1cdqqvm6uk16ohs777sm2c501/59208221071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdeldtqsvo331kph7t4ctbcthh/ziwimatisajogoxewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/58765826173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apple888.vn/luutru/files/sikajapesokirebeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcb19277b34---zerezivuparaxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbf7bebf87---17368784831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df1070cee1c---97403966049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d44b89b912---zegupewad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00157b201335c06bc2e446a3bec6e4a5/demijal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/9614369651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f76b19d100a---71287724318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ua7fvivbe6ecdi524s06hst9oe/99623315873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodomacnosti.net/data/file/mujeropugubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomehl.com/images/content/files/8659093160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841dbb7dc73---36694305429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2950ac5138941a785fa229393c9bc281/39465452599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///71382442042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/65366285992.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_off0001041b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1041B 19440 bytes
SHA-256: 539b10d64f50f3095b9884874c98514503bef14a5cc2fa3d02facb356830e524
font_01_sfnt_off0001381c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1381C 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 8d04b6214b819ffdd4af6912fbc46d702204ca40f0b9f0d94250801dbb668b1e
font_02_sfnt_off00015117.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15117 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1