Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 947eb45147dd0a0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:21:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 200c1002e11e6b8c70fb95e09cbb6782 SHA-1: 2479833ed4a8d4c29fbe429db3be01fc83a1ccae SHA-256: 947eb45147dd0a0dc76a7ae92f9eb10c4c94cf08a16d68b12b9c988df10ab2a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to domains associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/47783911255.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908873de78a---sukisipoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/bevawul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f556ba2f6f978c7594b34f9d5c9b49ba/nejuwawaxifenigobufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/85053487195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8da0c067d7---86508647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a798334912---bulolumamev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f288e29a61---75112368617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202106290424458583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202107file/2021070204214070554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080446be7194---36367135483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ud0tp123dj6hfdph7eugnmk47/86669906039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc6f41532b4f011bc9aadd55a73965f0/71237293306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yomamasushitogo.com/uploads/files/6170788286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/13627949739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4fd8551a9c---59049279671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jev0469s9mr8ourg0nsbo98its/puwovetofovenusuxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf4dd172f6---fepujaworav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ce80c95d0feb70f7271adc989d72f24/25027314409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happy-travel089.com/CKEdit/upload/files/17900601043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825231cd800---gagimulipajuporaxafiburef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e67da60142---lonus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fe9c98c4c---xuzazarozojurozujole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b8b06f0e60f5b3e051c74100539d18e/jepimele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/jaregager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=a+dish+best+served+cold+pdfPDF 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_off0000fabd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000112d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112D4 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 37974bcc3e70a84e8b3e0a9ad08ce4cea10e299e4ab5bccd2492c4aa20b4ec0c
font_02_sfnt_off00012b0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B0E 17808 bytes
SHA-256: 68720a73b883a32ab00e6158e66462881404bee2571d3e3ddd9e32a765cb25e0