Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47c9acbf3c678334…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 20:57:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fa03521572a3101cdaf936870f2facf0 SHA-1: fa4a7bb4a0b5baf54f07fe18636edefd64285169 SHA-256: 47c9acbf3c6783348fe30a28b91025db33dd28639aa22652ff2b46df86252e76
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 and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple suspicious URLs is a high-priority indicator.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083bef3529f5---jolerimijapavirub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5654b737d6f4cc5bb7f01902f4ebdfdd/85651864024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/69022180995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12c05ab610a7da2b9e345965083750b7/tetakoxokufojiridiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/95763566577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb87fe98064e01b53cc085e7c1e80b68/doxinexaguvovufow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cogersquest.com/clients/f/f6/f6194b381802d71b6842d6160e8859b1/File/wabomakobedek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210621094753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee1f9b9a30---69267900880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yanartekstil.com/firma/files/74344421347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc1638fa4f---fujonudirageren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/63161577641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aplus.to/userfiles/file/vumile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae74932e1f---giribazutebalovilemilowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d49tcae0fk18d46t7rr8pk6vp4/34161345513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bac00c02ced---fifepitebubifit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afp92md209l69dcd11mk42bpso/77103270923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc3ccce5d3---70474630555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608006d3bb2a3---10181179079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://italvaping.com/file/tuxavobazezasolusukixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/npra7kvjn729cm4tue80va0gj9/20698468084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/momigunukumur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/61634005010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=owning+a+dog+in+an+apartmentPDF 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_off0000fa42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA42 16364 bytes
SHA-256: 70de0ee5631ef26017cbbdfe2a95ca0b935b7b51416d5c0d6d1146e1f828284f
font_01_sfnt_off000124a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013cbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CBE 10632 bytes
SHA-256: f6f86ffad66c83d502e4ab554a1906a7029f81724efd6efa6e195bc4b142e0f5