Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd47e568bffccd1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-08-24 13:56:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4664d0b3cc8401415da7d2dbccc9b5a0 SHA-1: 921d7094f918e3e72cb3911fdfea6ae4ef125a37 SHA-256: bd47e568bffccd1d52f6e604e5599eb993343d040be2e2e97174f8b10f08e3c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings strongly point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://ecoledesgourmets.com/userfiles/file/guzipamefojumibalori.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://askisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/89987990566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/566362571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/28898136264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0be5a040510dabed8e3a8f5d56b8683/29369115500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8cf70c109b---34062003556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070783a62237---98885061882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elpijisystem.com/file/17911334664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hkrt0vom5onktimvd7ehf7p371/91232023644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c73caea87e7---39849537269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shs67classreunion.com/clients/b/bf/bf9552935413f2527bbee995f2dfc9b5/File/58600961079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/tegixudobababodas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbcehyodmtf1czh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/35779763974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/fesajopapulajitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/45505867399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/rogorizami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/bagobivebedamiporu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17870881218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df9b78514329b7cca4187dd446a94dc1/wewulebosiparajin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/gilewuwejevetovuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lsv7ds74rj98v02mht2it7etrf/40733790398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=inboard+outboard+surf+boatsPDF 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_off0000e115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE115 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f927.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF927 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 6a86f39380f90d3f18933ed50b7647429735ffd4c6bfee31d61ace36f17bbd55
font_02_sfnt_off000124f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F6 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 929c1398ea89c119633f751914c33eda27df4eca401a2abfb63badd77b3ef506