Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d47a63505fc5a7e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 21:08:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1c3e403ab34f4b114e21ef9b3a3f55ba SHA-1: a074df85cc4469295e601b152a7e5c5822c9722d SHA-256: d47a63505fc5a7e5485c57f7793a2d803755e8dd14272c2b944d3534a34b7b4c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on various domains. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm, often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious payloads. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 5

  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mac+address+android+code PDF link annotation
    • https://cfi-registration.org/buzzboxgift/img/userfiles/files/vewapopirelalav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/33052372588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomorrowhubs.com/upload/users/files/biwoziwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9023a44f61350862bdc5997faa6ba59f/75089486566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmsmarin.com/imgimage/file/kexulofebowopezerewikox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnpair.com/userfiles/file/69315927671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhtindesign.vn/uploads/image/files/vawesobibiloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161422b3280da1---32515774429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishboat.hr/files/tanudan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72896634015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vers-ma.de/userfiles/file/88551328975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-lipno.pl/pdrzewiecki/files/97867073832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polenes.cl/userfiles/file/kivapokisisewevasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613179e1629cc---41805269376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcserpenti.com/userfiles/file/89959515945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalamathachurch.org/cms_uploads/image/file/nixuberuwekajabusipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/64986715182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e205c66e15fd818099acf58c7a6acfe/nopetuviku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti.pl/userfiles/file/4348504845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/67237491164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioego.cz/userfiles/file/goligalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f897bbda59b059c48838cf9c08c1f221/48942080885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/16915520705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovec.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/febawefulepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/9701864482.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_off0000c851.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC851 19236 bytes
SHA-256: e749575f27e8eed948979ba4dac7c576c80685455a75ef23c6713d336820feb6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB17 10212 bytes
SHA-256: 9b2e4afb77e4b3264b8a75b1132d3637bc3a1f15e94e06ef651347d3547cd044
font_02_sfnt_off0001121c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1121C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1