Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce47dbf7861d778f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-15 13:15:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 3f10b47917a1f9e820e4d3180ccb5ca6 SHA-1: 01581a77f343e14c6ec57f833c8dc1d2c1c1ce16 SHA-256: ce47dbf7861d778f6829b58656e8706164e622c4d979481c38fba75dfabaa930
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. Heuristics indicate the PDF is a link farm on disposable hosting and points to compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bilinear+transformation+solved+examples PDF link annotation
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/kenisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/biboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/84537425044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/64469544431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e137e1553efe780b67fdb130b6914b35/38120001902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/38095173798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7eb9cc0f2---potekopetisutosim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/depavobubeximasajovuziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/genolodezebotezizusuguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f999b40e5c---kogipejivutajus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles//file/deluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.buildingmalawi.com/images/uploaded/documents/lulasozipuxodujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/37573479478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608433ad882dd---54600780467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c122d56ea80---94228798420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c88c3ae760---xowumomakuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/ditanirafidedadelenazif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36634f57dc2c530e5e537e8382e7e945/16998953414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886a5c22350---jopanupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb3cc96e30---zojetogenagewejudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb7d63b8f9---61701163213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944c9c4c371---87537545561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e8c583b0f---72256385336.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_off0000eec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC9 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 9dda611894ffcc5ce3baf91cfd37d921e042be295acb17e1581f8db4d5d81eb1
font_01_sfnt_off000107fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001200d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1200D 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 002f81a1faab71e6f61f128668a1277e37d3bd958b5093cbc655ca79e9168af2