Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c47b55ffde3ff4ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-22 20:59:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cf3159f92b75f7a6ee5ea5f6a3a64e49 SHA-1: e5c447c7e1aedab309bea7b264a24b914bece290 SHA-256: c47b55ffde3ff4eddc67c9376e9581dc03bd9fd28df95a0c8da46821b75a0a46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. These URLs are likely used for phishing or to serve further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=101+ccna+labs+with+solutions+pdf
    • http://tries.cz/media/images/upload/file/8370577985.pdf
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c2f8f8244391f2b33f544e4da2153fc/81985289052.pdf
    • http://boatmonies.com/uploads/files/xomunodefiduxajitisa.pdf
    • http://zatexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/82219087406.pdf
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da15b5494910255cd8e1730c1bc0b0fa/60199933725.pdf
    • http://www.vishalsahni.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovojilawalazofit.pdf
    • http://fosterfreezesantarosa.com/uploads/files/59339528919.pdf
    • http://galettedesrois.hu/userfiles/file/40639134737.pdf
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/farufibifunuzesuvugi.pdf
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/fuforuv.pdf
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614acb16f229e---77090638372.pdf
    • http://traktor-tv.de/sites/default/files/file/26994285552.pdf
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bbe92d025---37921324375.pdf
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/xudugipupa.pdf
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/94844757521.pdf
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/6523050358.pdf
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ss8n0k720uoagm8v11mghaleop/wenabug.pdf
    • https://happy-playground.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/53939105010.pdf
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41194681346.pdf
    • http://mrcookie.tw/upload/editor/file/160919411512.pdf
    • https://hijaulumut.com/contents/files/mitine.pdf
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/bejexorijan.pdf
    • https://kolkatanagariksammelan.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21895108593.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d40c.bin
1aac2cc21f48c53eb830564e7615e0320548952d57abcd9f4f07805b62c72430
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD40C 10888 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed02.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED02 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010514.bin
09b8867a5c11ceab4ce61731066f1d19157682006ece18fe87c5797e2491501b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10514 19632 bytes