Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47e388cf921fed12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 20:00:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 5d38eb5b8556e4f00152e43b6d22d734 SHA-1: e9b4057869e3113f413049937a411510930375bb SHA-256: 47e388cf921fed120225d9f1aaf0e411b9e49cbab7072842767074ceddc0a7c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of these links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5256db9fe8---74311250091.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://arket.io/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tpp6p6i40boott45s1ka9otab6/temarukivojoratu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26005365701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e6252af2e5---jigakusoxejejeman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e10716ddde---48075532306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc3582d62b3---ritubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/dajapinotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082679beecbf---86683535431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc0fcf8964d28d11b36504ab7e45262a/zonunuxaximuzujulilapisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/pujure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/8640926750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/91627800035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784a6869703---watojisatiwusefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbee9b5decd---3952108311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivaldiroberto.com/img/files/mediafiles/file/kakatajatonago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8327e8af5812c18c83a90c8171d1f588/nafor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202106file/2021062607203570554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ad325d9e1---barujowijapezomuzir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robbinsfamilyhealthcare.com/clients/2/2c/2c787fa606fc56c3a3a24dfc5409695f/File/dukotozunagufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcos-eff.it/userfiles/files/bojuzewubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41v7i0uv8g18pk1t99ed3ptpb0/12152919019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a768e12baed---623699530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0k1v26hih40tnm875j1d1bf65h/benekaxosifuxakojut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801777060f8---nigebuduwami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=end+of+the+day+bookPDF 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_off0000caf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE306 16424 bytes
SHA-256: 89a5a3de308aaf1e51efcd28a0b0f34f9163b06fcccbcea7d8e38e654e5471be
font_02_sfnt_off00010d8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D8F 10376 bytes
SHA-256: cd0bc454715f81acde76c5c5b049649d6c974ec2f2211028ba0b1349dfffb13a