Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47a2e04acbe74afa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-07-26 08:58:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b7d0677610d215d0549d54b3c28d579e SHA-1: ad148a96341c2410bc96dc4789e9308506d5cc5c SHA-256: 47a2e04acbe74afafefc35a03677cc80bc6f9eb48d7a492d0b4560403aaef393
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple compromised URLs is a high-confidence indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608796ce72ab9---85491600984.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021051617425669888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/paliwuxufatiman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941472eacdd---51788601848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jk7ukqrsqe5v9bn4et3qnv1p23/resonupes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1a672a4cd5---46006214346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/vuvuxavidedil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960ihs.com/clients/e/e0/e0b58928a48036c9af8d6cfc9cffdd99/File/nepiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/zonamos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/42042484289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kildevangen.dk/files/42097794186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b214be93360---najebimumutekagenodaserag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d888db85365e788b3d10a224014b05c/58257321506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomnhenryanderson.com/clients/8/8a/8a1068334c160bb49438aafe8043afff/File/kuvulegixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1fo8eff4rpdp8e5iuf8qnpqq5/taxisogudanopemubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/31208662701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33083469977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunarent.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mapewinavilumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a5cb68ed80eca5db7a8a1ddeb050fde/tonom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/bofaxumawekixuvikawopoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ab8bd207b700cedf31a32c75d9b3c2b/zalesililexasaxokup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37dc7a3f10eca271942312d90d9bc64c/kafujiwegumavuzokub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b77b6e98919952432fa066f73c0ee111/31845381628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075eb0e01152---8112409919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e705262ae7---10580996699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+difference+between+effective+and+efficient+communicationPDF 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_off0001165f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1165F 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 0b2db33fc5fb9da695ae3e3ab469821e8638931555a3145dd79047dbb52175e0
font_01_sfnt_off0001423c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1423C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015a53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A53 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 6b64aec474b0b27d09aa3b39bb07c2503c3922dfb9e8cf9644f7f2d02416a861