Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47663937fada26c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:50:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 312da3a386494d1e7a7ca321d987bbdd SHA-1: e3285ed1fc6bea35d2a0646886927402313b6c41 SHA-256: 47663937fada26c737933fa197b4c86ad6363be7b07f8df1a79342c03d9ee90d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The embedded URLs and link farm heuristics indicate an attempt to lure users to external malicious resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160918ef97ab7e---suwefuzofojaru.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pestresolution.pt/site/upload/file/53906046008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklenicky-obchod.cz/web/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xasojepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsinteriordesigner.com/userfiles/files/68690440893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/96200573200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jeq39inlbff8iiqkqkgglt1ji/32621106006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandientuchinhhang.com/upload/files/mabibovel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/javebafukigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/161bea998aaaadb340d05922c89cfd4b/kodenapolagon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpisiluman.com/contents//files/nexuxerefuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/32641234629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/perisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082563fa4ef9---sizikaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icoachyou.biz/images/ckeditor/files/nadufodasezejipexumeleto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1611610229dee8---pugopomotipur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q26bu59hj22sc2gaf3rj1mm6o0/27898743544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desushibar.com/userfiles/file/80671271956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792a8e84987---64326088413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/rutekenumonomekoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611723709674f---21323488841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd76bacb4dd7c46682fef503c2724d19/sisatilimaborapakizor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://come2menorca.com/images/file/70665169016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabd6499d30---rinusipesafelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=indesign+to+pdf+bookletPDF 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_off0000e2ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB01 10596 bytes
SHA-256: b98ba26393baa31711b45355f21c868bc70b4ef732ab1fb6693968b717279036
font_02_sfnt_off000112d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112D6 17752 bytes
SHA-256: c4585490a604953495bef4da88a0f5e9eac7c88cb474e18ab5b3af6ffc17f142