Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47db0804ee94262b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:12:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f2c2cbff233d3148955e216e99036f05 SHA-1: e5f6a5055df66824be679fe8868c8f83b5bd91de SHA-256: 47db0804ee94262b5fb41f87b23d7cb769552db4d935bb5707e802b6a4313f24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated content rather than user-readable text, further supporting a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0l0rp2qbvami6kj16es3thv7l/sitirurusuxawefukujuza.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87f9f0322bf6275ea8fc07d9e8d63873/17969197821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/vixoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b715e2a08---73034878743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0c5cab5dd5---90829254211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/lipezojilafukekudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/bomejiwovamunupajodejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/65179223880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d186f4b35b---99954365711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802c8eb7876---46567704289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dcfc51adc1fbfe3e3b63135d361853e/zepovuzediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4k55b1afcni5eihf4s4mgm98mk/53339178409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c494f42b6a---1487227098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/vajizejepija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/37247647977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergladesharvesting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45402337067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a2c3a74bd9c06a866987c78934035b0/jajuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdwtechnology.com/fckeditor/file/morawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1b1200f190---fuvuzoxalexiviripapuvemur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/239b973ee59da85775add499e24dee3d/18725165756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cad7430b98f---fupufutufoxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ei-hotel.com/free_images/files/24287155706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+calories+does+a+glass+of+white+wine+havePDF 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_off0000f00d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF00D 11180 bytes
SHA-256: b79b8b43beb2009380d7da3c901b7acfb1d851af4c74b20083747d7c26dc3b3f
font_01_sfnt_off000109d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121EB 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 7ce4bb284f43607942c2d1b4ea3fad3098fe07d3704dbb0ef8c6af240a7d0ca8