Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 647feb823bc271f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:31:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: ba8dee399c34f47639f54edebb8ea630 SHA-1: c675eb444808fb9ac56939b87454a8706ad72825 SHA-256: 647feb823bc271f6234ce1051d38f7312fa71fc98a0b3e7c3609763c220c7fba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's used to host or redirect to malicious content. The embedded URLs, such as http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t843u8nlv5o5vl5s62c1vvg16e/vibivufulijurezume.pdf, are likely part of this distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t843u8nlv5o5vl5s62c1vvg16e/vibivufulijurezume.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/benekaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9p3qti6h31niv7hm9md5t8vo1/bebajobojudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9f4c7fc71---972755455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/io8vn2qglo9034lqu34rmpvbvj/87838241920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/51061864551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbjht3maq7s532gndn19ssr09u/85615580978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b72f71062---42107079152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/jaware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/jikuwiwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/16251365261807910234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1bf4946b2a488fcf451e8d7e639e120/kudakovodedodukamapomana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075df628ab1a---subitapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53676d827e191edadc43df03831bc060/12005735184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vettercycles.ch/userfiles/files/fujevojuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/67438402645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/52958221451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835fa7e49c4---diboxikusatimal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d671f949f5b6a7a8c61f4671865543e0/bivoxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/mojejer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hideab.se/tc/Mediagalleri/file/zituxapazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgwealthplanner.com/crm/files/rebododilokebaxobavijirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=elapsed+time+worksheets+for+grade+6PDF 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_off0000bcbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D5 11172 bytes
SHA-256: bbd0a441fa3540d09e3d98ac9c8894aa7c05b53127be63b2ea06edd51962dc0e
font_02_sfnt_off0000eed3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED3 16248 bytes
SHA-256: ff1f79693e43116af57de61e97a5d467ba55a31355028b519f73f2c740eff6f5