Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f47170fc33dcdb71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 19:53:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f02e5a1f56cc9aa69d43b72f158b06b8 SHA-1: 21ec308aa854a4cad4b89cec39752b712bc55353 SHA-256: f47170fc33dcdb71d42522b585e77fa0b8e686220d6700a8ec3dc5dcb3d869fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The PDF structure itself is heavily obfuscated, and while no scripts were explicitly extracted, the heuristic firings indicate a pattern of hosting malicious content on potentially compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=marketing+and+supply+chain+management
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e0595bb62188f1a94e6d15db9025ad0/fufamutumuvuxarezubiwutim.pdf
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210702141333.pdf
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d53d80e82---babikajofazijurawudef.pdf
    • http://fhs76reunion.com/clients/0/00/009202203981f132fd14d012a57c0fe5/File/kupewujolubep.pdf
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/uxunoxeso.pdf
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mk6ua1vjoposecd70hsdvk3s5p/velugoziniwuva.pdf
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1790c0733---zajusol.pdf
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc7f6ded25---63324278912.pdf
    • http://magrubber.com/images_upload/files/metowoxaronekimeboxuk.pdf
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/bomolanamafegirodikob.pdf
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/99564346167.pdf
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44f9bd6857---98613094278.pdf
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents//files/88651899747.pdf
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/galutezotuki.pdf
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/66693829933.pdf
    • https://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/lewenasetigezabozu.pdf
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jopsrmntgh8pee3ltto2orr0cf/nalede.pdf
    • http://vivaibonomo.it/userfiles/files/95859273824.pdf
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s88lvctemds809gfvih5p57qob/98104320108.pdf
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b329f10144f---52539332027.pdf
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c66dd7b410---30986059313.pdf
    • 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_off0000eb68.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB68 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001037f.bin
9ea7c35847c76b43a5252ffbb702bd32ac95d715a6f9f9542e013bb4e36ca70b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1037F 11140 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d24.bin
1fed605c33123c84cfa7d7e7a24c709384e8c3fe43c7aebac0601081de757870
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D24 16380 bytes