Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47b3f482ae935ebb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-21 23:57:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bde9193b0c9b3e2f98bbc2e62d1ecaa0 SHA-1: d0d55d1cfede157b7556b60ae9ca902d2d3adc93 SHA-256: 47b3f482ae935ebb9ff627939213a5733ab00f9fa59dc5a26987c34d0ba16720
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm used to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/inqqk9uheh9vt9e5auncucs1m3/80142873627.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07671dbdba---1379315859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1964fc1b79---57669682037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fdc5a0619---87901395366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/776a0458e752d273d58802e64f62bc1a/jerilojixuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//zopejozubilapuleragarubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9fcd1dfcf9---32467967395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51532c06b654608c22cd4f67bc448a70/jiwixekutetetodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/netologoxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7qs8rtuj0m9v5b7d95ps8m9736/43069639279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/240d5f8b33c1fedb1dee2912cd10152d/56541234070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/fotunimoguwuwabuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viermaalh.nl/Bottesteyn/Site/afbeeldingen/file/bitosor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huntland.hu/upload/file/xoluwodapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a5f7b69b60ad02331bca35121271da5/6251285234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716ba499192---74038456925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c64887bac2b---31575766570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istrouma1971.com/clients/9/9b/9b88b062b8d6af44b28e209fcb06d7d5/File/12407382074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=beth+skinner+iowa+department+of+correctionsPDF 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_off0000e7db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7DB 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 156164a8eb07184c5f42d03d81a90741393e83711a8a5bc6436cb9c369d0240b
font_01_sfnt_off00010192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10192 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 824859bfe92202ffab03f12b29a157a90b1d559dbc217f069e24025d075d7d61
font_02_sfnt_off00012e3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1