Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47295228648dd2f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-07-08 11:44:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7980bcd66c0753c5539c58a0e55de321 SHA-1: 05ae62efe7c3af2347082e704bac8f95d12d8b4d SHA-256: 47295228648dd2f33e6733ab91b451962028f4b12a88ee9dfb2355543874fc67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of these links, combined with the 'link farm' heuristic, indicates an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

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 http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ir8iuu40jdifim4mca96gdhn2/42138260837.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe9ae1161c---12841114877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/kivenuvobomokilolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5j34pjkmob7t69635811e5v8jn/nirujimelulorure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/lowejirufoxovoxore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c368db42ac7---93830354299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da7168db07---37398915709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2e90e19247---38454795257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd1a05d21a3b32715f2cf4c33c8ac61b/23965908911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/66294688887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highgaincomposites.com/img/file/2021623225056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e989ff1244---lulopajorabosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818d3606401---xukeluxasazidebapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/dotomowifaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/zelipusabowuxajanek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7b312b16f---49489084161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/43934419721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2220e11959---rotonelupoxomobodavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f8306793b---guvevoxegawoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e8c3d76283a00b461d86cab9229867d/76517979231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/60150661744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ccna+chapter+2+quiz+answersPDF 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_off0000e230.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE230 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 32d559328d27149b51b79c28d564673497a90e6860a38553581effc8f2159761
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11370 16264 bytes
SHA-256: 3352038601bc0c71a9cd3380835f457fdac69188d4fc26f0ba3cb098a447d7e2