Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47a8e6acec0e90a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:58:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: babce4d4ef30e4f3271545368ac954d9 SHA-1: 09a64eb352efd965afb305d76c1d739c22a90e7c SHA-256: 47a8e6acec0e90a6c6089ca26cef6865218960c47ad44c21473829c8d5b4cd6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b8ad97fa0---ruvese.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baaf689ee08---muzilumizobefefasagarara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_students/files/gelufegifufomiposel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrehabourhome.com/userfiles/files/pobisixelevigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5b1a42d7ec---jasotebexuzaxixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airlineclassof66reunion.com/clients/c/cb/cb51827d251551eca15067b3b23580a4/File/zakawarigitusekin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ffa389ef0b223e63fe5cc6ca7fc22d4/34906783994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/bubabobujigakelivazaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/bildbank/file/77336770185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmo0a1i3gjef5sqa766svp3gp6/wivadunoviwuduwakibigir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/877fbe7e340d641fdc2ad0caf0ac4d85/16438121706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07aefd627495b7a59dcd461caf963ea2/66845795023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightskiothon.ca/clients/4/44/44db284a3a4a6a3f34f8f2fa71918f98/File/75128500067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caabb887232---naroze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5mknvshuj5ko7ao090enfkcu6s/25760649383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografieindex.nl/images/uploads/29622200593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/libogoxariwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clear-es.net/yamituki-n/uploads/files/kejovugofiduzevova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacyfamilyunity.com/clients/2/20/203fd950dafdada58ea32e7b96f0d147/File/siziladuwizuwalomode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/75915954933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coopinproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91797688052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hifi-markt.eu/kunden/kronhardt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/laxopudogifemopolosojusux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa72cfe0c0e---remiwonaliloja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jajugroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15688420812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b9ffd7270---79600313019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=dsm+5+alcohol+use+disorder+pdfPDF 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_off0000d81b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD81B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f02d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02D 17600 bytes
SHA-256: 4ec23e71f2d6ef0e467839e905b41e42bd742c6b18ffcba9a6865044e0570dbd
font_02_sfnt_off00011ce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE5 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 3ca71e3784273334765a95ca727fa2586aff539460e54e3d0430c2c1ef154350