Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c47f81ee7433298f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 18:02:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2eef3c2346b31ec4aff29051b09f6024 SHA-1: 7a2d44f585b00504bf57bc97b71b003e6d4631df SHA-256: c47f81ee7433298f7c64823862476c8c98bdf992672aee91f0b58099861739ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct content, but the presence of many URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=love+story+chords+no+capo PDF link annotation
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b44ae285f9d899c77e8908ca51cafa7f/rikekisaketumuxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rallstarawards.us/nbloom/fckuploads/file/pukozojonijiwefojowexez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facyt.com.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55270472846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perevodvnegiloifond.ru/pict/file/85798562522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/17502792576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manenshop.com/upload/files/62708163358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidsjeodo.com/images/files/gunagexerevob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijdsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tusezomuxaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trinityautorepairs.com/uploads/files/61191949663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okinawa4d.com/contents/files/15524982732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theponghop.com/upload/files/130771599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dasbluemchen.com/52428170762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/tajotarifogepasagazigukas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icloudcleaners.com/uploads/account/autoresponderfiles/8676615460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://methese.com/upload/files/siritevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya-system.com/uploads/files/202109110550118965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fcd7872572---62460615392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e82e26e0d---30222563613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkirbilaw.com/userfiles/files/34915387244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldendazzle.com/upload/quangtri/files/54960807802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.org/files/files/pokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dulasaloronusetujetem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4eb658e71---vevuxogalexovekarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/42079982713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613021e462cc0---bavosaguxoremimawow.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_off0000db02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB02 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 0c27316e5c22daab9624175df18ebb1d1a45f2d0fd6cfc57d9279f47e1ad4828
font_01_sfnt_off0000f349.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF349 17472 bytes
SHA-256: 882b835c042899d4300af61ed17ef9f45714e534d9098ba5c132f7ea8b1ecef6
font_02_sfnt_off00012045.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12045 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1