Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47427e970eea453e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:12:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0fc500a049df24c1ccc967f575f0f964 SHA-1: 59342cbe68a0131c45db94cebc1f4b7849e7beab SHA-256: 47427e970eea453e43aafbeea222b05f3dafcf24ff6a454a29a2ef80711043e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, contribute to the overall pattern of redirecting users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a4203af8f894c26a6c8cec3c0febcdf/11564505390.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a292137e5db9b6676a280d91c90dd7b/69406995462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81544195824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/2430853017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lc4sii8658ljah1ba3n8tn7432/9918738849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rarisepitan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/tosakegavuwakokibotajoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/godunuwofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6092f02a7aba035eaee1ab8e73c4281/pomoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiendadelbordado.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovawodapufofulujotawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/naseseguronaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef29fb02822f2d4063244b4757429158/27220241919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff7d6de5fb---11947957123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e99348ea8d---maduzaxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motolargo.pl/userfiles/file/41819113796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/nenus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f608279fd4c---37825352615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b660ebcc05b---butin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l81ug691lhqb8co6t0lvu3ias3/sojolefuganexelitim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/batabibit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dg9bjo3in8n85l9g5sd6paapv/87044012485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a27df05dc20---55283324827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da34559f704---25623960706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotteppta.com/beta/assets/file/fefaxulipevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6p2ai48u985kutv092pjlq78fj/13315599631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=parts+of+speech+worksheets+pdf+grade+6PDF 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_off0000ef5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5F 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 62c00a363e292dff701089c88b41d0a98b33e14e09351fa5b07affeaa3994058
font_01_sfnt_off0001090a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1090A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001211c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1211C 16908 bytes
SHA-256: b0200261da4a915fa2898feff69f163140ddc68ee92714d582ec8d8cc4349892