Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 747e4334a9da3ac3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:12:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 89a8c1d70eccedb7c47dc7c649afcd0e SHA-1: 43cb1b2b2bb53de45a014038654dc05706520226 SHA-256: 747e4334a9da3ac38e786147bf6d6476ef4164c5339b45b932965552604b5d72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external links suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://andymullinscommercial.com/home/andy/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43011116722.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb2e21da5d---88784753120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa61aec42a5---29131338318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3f896e7c5f---jinilitivizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b9p5pknomu25o3ufqqha5gv8s/gunikop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamaskitchenorder.com/uploads/files/68999714777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f227ce68074ab9c73bf75b49ce16ae56/20125756449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f0db66463---xagikoverusujibepumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46357986827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a38a1afa8---73469098215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/723e4ei5ocd16o2jnhpqv61ut5/tupitadoduxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halaljones.com/uploads/files/poleziratipoxabuvotulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70bc21406835924c3f7712aeb79de1e8/68351481141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d59947055---62048404071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anyimaker.com/upload/users/files/27167208594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/88344531021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/nitanaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwpokebar.com/uploads/files/41080604185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nctpa.biz/clients/5/51/51e593b678cc4707ea5ff7b662bcbdb9/File/26731496205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa7ada769b---lijokexezemixaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/julevatotosubujuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/38010045032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=fit+to+fat+and+backPDF 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_off0000ea0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA0C 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5016ae87e834c9f5268535cf6696b351c2ed8877b18546d78d3785b9a52598
font_01_sfnt_off00010120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10120 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011932.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11932 17024 bytes
SHA-256: f03e01b6d0236f9cb9181dfcb5c1ff21f6de49e95fbfa4c7f413b0a0febf2dda