Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb47c7d73eabb56c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-28 15:25:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5394ce0beb5acbbf711f1c50a31f482d SHA-1: 76fe692a9b7b9c1230463fb35fc36f7e53cf61ad SHA-256: bb47c7d73eabb56c512144eccc8b854c16b4d488714388fecf5a50d1b22a13b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, with multiple links pointing to PDF files. The embedded URLs and link farm structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://zkmeiqi.com/admin/ckfinder/upfile/files/46816943752.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alajwakh.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/58451510484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsde.com/uploads/files/kodos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2496054a5c313349712908e877ea5c97/rukukikawal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjtvina.com/Upload/files/kobokuwagajobat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmrcstvm.com/userfiles/file/92666560684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/42713382387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenfield-sustainability.com/images/files/suvajakejisidofuzuzito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-housing.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sefub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/83434256752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daithanhnam.com/upload/files/42160873126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieutrimun.myphamkangnam.vn/webroot/img/files/lukenokanozepubuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lzokxjcrti5um.com/upload/fckeditor/file/81803158461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021091417114569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cfb7ce1b2d---dapetesuwelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmaciasacoor.com/site/upload/file/7328007548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsite.vn/uploads/files/wofigevedonutamesasixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/xotodufaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomientrung.vn/uploads/image/files/52971798213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/37735114578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florissantdesign.nl/docs/Image/file/50824467050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplehelppeople.net/uploads/File/kupumabatasal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210912195253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/161324d2470287---76221224454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=facebook+app+android+tabletPDF 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_off0000c5b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5B7 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 403a1da55274b97fe55e6a7c103280786383871ec336583f142d107591f09c36
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD98 19012 bytes
SHA-256: 7ad73fd5403a00d4fe3186c6534a1e98fc566c94ff8ff0a1d609824c90a70bb1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1