Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b47a8517d9684f86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-29 03:00:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7115026cbd1c974af4dcfa794f3a5126 SHA-1: 498830b364bcb98680b769ca0286f66c53aeef7a SHA-256: b47a8517d9684f861457039e3c6705bbf4dba9c501dbbf838f3f464464e4da7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external resources, potentially for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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=game+pet+android PDF link annotation
    • http://wsospice.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/zubezunozimipukagamawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islaminkiel.de/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/zesavovivopatalisuvaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decorstore.eu/upload/file/zoguluxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activesites.atiks.org/files/59846975437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/goxinorereju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/76228553291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614540138b196---xusetibiwowipimezegabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tolltisztitas.eu/userfiles/files/22003294622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161321080d1486---92124382488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccadl.com/files/20210929073617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myslizdrave.com/soubory/18870542398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144cbb5905ac---67603468630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161529f3316397---8320631857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33596666983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ee8a6efdd6---merurutibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cac98e312cda133b6103469a62f258a/levufituzul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88129880633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-09-08/fbf5eeef4b4c16a65f6cd09bfbfaee9c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2b-intelligence.it/uploads/file/puretesazazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihappywash.com/uploads/files/202109051653286952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bengalroys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26449408341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/nozuvimun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///40763191680.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_off0000b28c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB28C 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 780f3f2b74ee0feea78d8db7232c3f51db44d0db9630db45f81e5f90472d965b
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9EE 15708 bytes
SHA-256: dbb2d9e63b706e00fc0a54ff9334536d70f0dd57914f728e5f71c2c6cf6907f7
font_02_sfnt_off0000f224.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF224 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1