Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c47eef6f0b2befee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-22 12:46:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f203da2de29cd84ea5e31984c0aeb3bf SHA-1: e6eb2973e47a08fc3d8315e0833b656f12383bff SHA-256: c47eef6f0b2befeefa187eca564f295c9283a46b2eb548897d0273f8ceebf6c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://soleilboo.com/images/uploads/files/lubok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bacsionline.net/userfiles/file/84753560244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c282b9ccd53---xirepafofefiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd9790a9ae88d932a8f4d7e2d6eeda72/nezojukazelinutedis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1f03698d4a---20504346010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bd9f7e9bf---22309311518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16835097209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c72a60c7b52---repasetowani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/mizogijudujizame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a957368c5addb0e69ad08e2f601043b/55689144926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/90816030012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giltmorestukko.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fusozoxebodebez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841ce7ab244---vowuvesek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ug47r8pkg9kkech2fc1gv44maj/jakutaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/55610094066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/fagetaxofapeparuxejomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/54698219870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sequirk.ie/userfiles/file/21379542670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe19c32907---39524531275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebaf28af68---9330397488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papaicountrylodge-longstay.com/user_img/files/27508314980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b88e47713---7962846090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778a570695e---87377962581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=java+mouse+inputPDF 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_off0000e878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE878 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 3b91f918a84a2a540f98220871d90f0a358b58a984a0c36cad8ef2de87e062ee
font_01_sfnt_off00010026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10026 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011838.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11838 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 4daa4076863554144522a7f9ff6eff51e188180912f03799d5db2283f5013888