Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e47d6c74c2bead00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-08-31 19:48:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0aa82f76489e5cdd05e24f69c35ad896 SHA-1: 0e0d7ea2729b40c770532d0c642f051ef5caeb90 SHA-256: e47d6c74c2bead0019875698f0839a1ec7ac30bc469cdd731420c116d1c6dd3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as redirects to phishing pages or malware download sites, a common tactic for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://karthikeyanjayaram.in/userfiles/file/zivoserijowove.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/84486281686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t7vbfkfv4d3um0komqksc2kck2/xeganujoguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/xanumepovuvopigep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/38829888122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5bae42441---xututelezeterisajerone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/88445246957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca5630df57---lavedokomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d81344ff66---35355944702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/fanipot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c164f39313---kevox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/56580131844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a744ee8966a0ca0c8579bf079b77926/satusun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929395f2505---vojawoxapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/48888724324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///kekajuvomudugok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18496a98a1---5986536612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/nuwaganurigejegovig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906f62914d9---fatiginijow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/koxilegijobuxesefapusupul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wphs67.com/clients/9/95/95f8299e8098c1f2c85aab0f7ead5e97/File/10589967086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8d1634e52---laxagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/voluroligivevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=miss+you+tonightPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d266.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD266 17992 bytes
SHA-256: 1e701e4633e8bb014915b4aece22400390b9e00e3d73c33e0a23435734dbedb0
font_01_sfnt_off000100a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A3 10156 bytes
SHA-256: 9c7b5a6528adfd47abcf82511eeef43b3665ab718b699ab028ba8087bbeceae6
font_02_sfnt_off0001175a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1175A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1