Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47b38defc2848fc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:53:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8bf36029843dc884a7c6674f256b1080 SHA-1: 295c61c23491795a195e98b0d5380ee93cbc9bbc SHA-256: 47b38defc2848fc6826e1de850dc13eda59ac76e0f2eead424dd64728beec834
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories on various domains. This structure strongly suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely phishing pages or malware downloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc5e9441ac---92340269832.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38469f03f16ee614380dbb97e0a5ddef/14742242701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertexmedical.com/userfiles/files/10650107145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/vepuwabogamajafobexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/megotomavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/62796670928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611140f9c886b---52867475813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpdev.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kulanazubuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886a678efb3---39490575947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1d94e1483---zukonifevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homelife-superstars.com/image/files/85334109040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapalishakti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77278267616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gofuladejovemogud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/daxaxipet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/52419831153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-polyana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/padotaterapuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sergeca.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nojewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cartolmania.it/file/59742997975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bursaceyizgelinlik.com/images_upload/files/gulaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/81348479311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd90dc5286---14739906735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/19349974474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/70129682785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=convertir+pdf+vers+dwg+gratuitPDF 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_off0000eb20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB20 19172 bytes
SHA-256: 0be3891974cddb30138eb72a6a649024f6564e2e9abc82977018c14221eb1097
font_01_sfnt_off00011b39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13350 10912 bytes
SHA-256: b07d5e68274953cd8ea47dbcb69bd13c01a1295494469cb9607ba5429e39826f