Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c47e1b4ccd8598f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 07:26:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: ea46635065a6a1a6765cd17791ac9e0f SHA-1: 05d3913c5e33cc35f5c85132d7b59db30c24d843 SHA-256: 6c47e1b4ccd8598f86e68ce7eb308135f803d3d80956ff7f9658fdf097fbb58f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues about its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/gunonusebazude.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kuogk5idmfancpp77r9jq35b34/21907634059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/189c2605c360b3f607b52ae79a8205cd/mofaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/231417c5fe23540dc2d4ec1ce06f6900/71255539818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/14501481016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073366f7967d---87006278716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95958855203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mahlkoenig.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tukeworuligivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8dcb7909dd---17947565809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085bd7dc0646---fevukitubaganakupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/tiwasagune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/files/12037122174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210608234945_ph7ewx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7rgb89alu3s2rvb0932k7oq01/67335105199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soosekszer.hu/upload/files/58968025174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/juzipavelava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072977dd2840---tiralivoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/95997066267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/64309071989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/87604139729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/49835509804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93022c19402d29466fd11c0d78cb267c/56572553276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160cd11e1890dd---88613957874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/femijivobitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/4551499464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=this+made+me+laugh+out+loudPDF 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_off0000f91c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF91C 16700 bytes
SHA-256: 36c92989f5c395c9dc260ac7deacb351e7e7eea13ed66bf3371f0e5ae97cacd0
font_01_sfnt_off0001249b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1249B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013cb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CB2 10552 bytes
SHA-256: bb56f713cd3ebae4302e32897744cba63994bd7b334cfa586d4fc2b5f109ecf5