Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47f0bcdeb6adb2cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.4 KB Created: 2021-07-07 03:37:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2c6dc700fc3d37cf47f504c3efa2a4ef SHA-1: 458928b9a19da88dc06402b8eb4615798f157e52 SHA-256: 47f0bcdeb6adb2cdde49aef10ad6019503f3db50939f6c5170fee53ae3d6773b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, specifically targeting the 'formcraft' plugin's file upload functionality. This pattern suggests the document is intended to host or redirect to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3ebfbc4d2---xufotonixikezegogu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5675c0db01---59167178346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14201d30e4---43867295809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7baca64803049af447028143c8d3b0a9/gidesojibudirilise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4566da30d2---84826289817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/083le9l0gqf9cdgebu02ucdjju/fipewoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085523e85f6f---77589512179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/viferivenofawukekafuket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congluc.com/upload/files/vawomivipuzezazuxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42e62b2eac---71097226259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0a139860ab446bd421e48d8be8c036b/18768760949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d608b109b9f---zavuxarod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blankheich.de/images/uploads/file/54301361384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ukhbtb4qeia551jvvpbl90q38n/42058419827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1d4adb7cd2---16741363402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e54e328cc1---midadorudevonik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210704_125255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henrysadiereunions.com/clients/876463/File/gemiwomeweberewuwuxixiful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/tabova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b41cd16014c---romopawekerule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/272d476293e5d9e979f21d3af8120737/gewekeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fcfa0d049c---pobinerejajonotax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f48b1baaa---jikadozuwugebimanise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/81841497008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=who+invented+the+classical+guitarPDF 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_off00017ceb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17CEB 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 4e35da74abf4f1502a3a3ec7d899b0c5a444f8e3647d53fa96cf758156003b0f
font_01_sfnt_off0001959c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1959C 20536 bytes
SHA-256: 6ca75a1b630da457ad4b3824f1b972cfc8e1134ec4e22f97d5ea034d18c85aa6
font_02_sfnt_off0001c865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C865 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1