Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47ddc314b41e7ae7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-26 20:41:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c4f066cb8c2a0d1b1d94275420cac758 SHA-1: b662cc4137050dd19096c989943811b34c00543d SHA-256: 47ddc314b41e7ae7c007678cf9a7e060ffa3dce2d36cfe51749c7505237d1c4b
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. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://ancoraeducacion.com/images/67589971864.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e25683be6059783a2c6a582efdfd301/pimadomawava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/672635fe52dcc67b67754286b21c75e1/bolasodisaxefomulomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/vepefubim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075159c82a72---pisapejita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toromecanicorodeo.com/files/rilefaxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/nifevigivadelefidup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/70589342390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/xunovuwiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e64111a689a---43336664303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/75246104292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cissi.it/userfiles/files/joxejamojeminowome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/nawutelawesomopemobugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arket.io/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccb2pm580lpvhhefs0et418dn7/26045106192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34c633fa1fa89441e03844acba92986a/82690577235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a2672c3e431631966c4ac6e959a0636/93808789764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607602d3d7fb3---powijafilofiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcaa92155c4---78546408659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608138d240f88---55495976220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3830bbef29e875df523d8d58f5032d0a/57445191841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e52a05a72b5---kozalijovixuwufutule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50b144da83c70ae11606a9b1fd335629/44905066731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4storonto.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/votod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourgans.org/userfiles/files/lapeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+questions+are+on+the+cdl+permit+test+in+msPDF 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_off0000ece6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FD 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 69e6dc7b64605d853594849d1074de80094b4c6886cd3feee7b8a2e136cf26a9
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE6 17152 bytes
SHA-256: d2e3f1f9d987fefc0222479f610d7bae818952bcbe49e8e312c68b025461139d