Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83b47c5ce1518b48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-05-28 20:38:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: bfed559b6add4f864999980c7874eca6 SHA-1: cc5a9377b046c3d0acd64a251da2c25093419da3 SHA-256: 83b47c5ce1518b48ac1f5e88700771af834b7bb4e4daf909d2482ef4560437da
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, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to its creation by wkhtmltopdf, which is not inherently malicious but can be used to generate deceptive documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=el+se%25C3%25B1or+de+las+moscas+pelicula+completa+subtitulada PDF link annotation
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1543d95976---raxovidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/494bdad361b86fe122a20c8901270af5/14388195529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c18b11458---forobadadimubisodujoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d992ffe46c88e4e7040022291bb50d2c/45522160646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a54c55752d2---viwazopexapomulabususajor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f35e1c5c3d---sawewifekaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ce2b70433---temozetutabesujilufof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089fab7d9b9f---lefigozetofawonekeramij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a8f984519---54143930986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e46b805cb---85946727532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed41c2baec---38621781122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b99c34d2f3---13784155264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/82364807984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad62a0682b4---lusadirokegifusebeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f43cc8829cce51499604cdd7dcf8459d/nisuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6456f897d9e975aeaab3c59a29e05440/48058159433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o002namc09cbvahg7biaq1u4rp/47463482566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d68c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD68C 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 9a8dec093dc32bfd7841904e1455ddafb791c7c384514472f03120331292f1f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e86a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE86A 10920 bytes
SHA-256: d5d292cf51483706c4086e3c494f45fbfb7c5e18878eaed9ab3d85cac40b6ab2
font_02_sfnt_off00010c25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C25 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3