Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c47e5c63c9da2f54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 23:51:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b7bc25209f2af1a0c79368329a7c8d48 SHA-1: 4508af0009210ca4c2b31e793723bec215663d16 SHA-256: c47e5c63c9da2f54aad8a6b0cc0fbb78998785035896dc347918af5b59b612cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious domains and are flagged as link farms. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://jooli.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35049011385.pdf
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/viwaxidozexamipiriw.pdf
    • http://89928386.com/uploads/files/202109021810096207.pdf
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/zunixerudubegiziwaw.pdf
    • http://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/82371056438.pdf
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/53660383680.pdf
    • https://korankertas.com/contents/files/93805887308.pdf
    • https://lensmam.com/userfiles/file/74299112246.pdf
    • http://erdbau-rauch.at/49456627435.pdf
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bababudeweworemunuxexusur.pdf
    • http://nobody-films.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/49598057187.pdf
    • https://kenadong.com/contents/files/watemiletiburukosozajebo.pdf
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4f63db67e103030f57e42850184be52/finanavas.pdf
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u8sj59ptf6gq16ccjbg7eguhsh/lomadirajeretorixuzo.pdf
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64708048033.pdf
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/janeromavurabuju.pdf
    • http://dansungsala.com/uploads/files/filifudanokotijup.pdf
    • http://bilafafafa.com/shopadmin/upload/files/67364947099.pdf
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613337145dcae---44433440016.pdf
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/patusujiramatizaxev.pdf
    • http://mycoapaisyl.com/webimages/files/zikefosipotepubob.pdf
    • https://happyjourney.webtrails.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/falufa.pdf
    • http://ivankrivanek.com/userfiles/file/43465365913.pdf
    • http://auswallendorf.de/userfiles/file/29089015204.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=play+store+app+free+download+for+pc
    • 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_off0000dea7.bin
3ee0f26ca1b2fe10bcb830ea1c6759b78ac227e449e2ba1873d9924f308bb11e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA7 10720 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f797.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF797 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010fa9.bin
708928d7f77661b9d91e13636d1e4364574bef6b9e8b87f429eeadaa71bb8fe4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA9 17104 bytes